[Linux-cluster] Re: GFS, what's remaining

[David Teigland]

On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 02:19:48AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> David Teigland <teigland at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Four functions:
> >   create_lockspace()
> >   release_lockspace()
> >   lock()
> >   unlock()
> 
> Neat.  I'd be inclined to make them syscalls then.  I don't suppose anyone
> is likely to object if we reserve those slots.

Patrick is really the expert in this area and he's off this week, but
based on what he's done with the misc device I don't see why there'd be
more than two or three parameters for any of these.

Dave