[Ocfs2-devel] [RFC] Integration with external clustering

[David Teigland]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:57:55PM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> (Also, your outline doesn't contain the possibility that the cluster
> says "No, you CAN'T mount this. Rejected!" - is this for ease of
> describing the case, or how is that implemented? Writing "2" to the
> .../mounted flag or something?)

-1 I think

> I'd much rather have all of this done in user-space prior to the actual
> mount syscall being issued.
> 
> "mount" would need a generic hook by which it could call into the
> cluster stuff (whatever it is) to a) have it authorize the mount, b)
> _know_ about the mount, c) prepare the mount if needed - by bringing
> online all pre-requisites on that node et cetera. 

I agree, that would be very nice.  I'll find some time to dig up the
mount code.

Dave