[Linux-cluster] Re: [ANNOUNCE] OpenSSI 1.0.0 released!!

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Daniel Phillips wrote:

> On Saturday 31 July 2004 12:00, Walker, Bruce J wrote:
> 
>>In the 2.4 implementation, providing this one capability by
>>leveraging devfs was quite economic, efficient and has been very stable.
> 
> 
> I wonder if device-mapper (slightly hacked) wouldn't be a better approach for 
> 2.6+.

It appeared from the original posting that their "cluster-wide devfs" 
actually supported all types of device nodes, not just block devices. I 
don't know whether accessing a character device on another node would 
ever be useful, but certainly using device-mapper wouldn't help for that 
case.