[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 5/5] ocfs2/dlm: make dynamic lvb alloc work

[Joel Becker]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 05:22:43PM -0700, Sunil Mushran wrote:
> BTW, you are forgetting user_dlm. Not userspace dlm, but user dlm.
> So the premise here is that we can skip allocating space for the lvb
> based on the lockname. That will work for fs locks. But not for dlmfs/
> userdlm because we allow users to create any lockname.
> 
> Now granted we can then say that lvb is not available for userdlm.
> But we do provide that facility right now.

	We are not taking away the lvb for userdlm.  So userdlm would
have to always allocate, I guess.

Joel

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