[Ocfs2-users] CDSL status

[Aurélien Minet]

Thanks for the quick reply,

Joel Becker wrote :
> On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:45:49PM +0200, Aurélien Minet wrote:
>> I'm trying to get ocfs2cdsl working,
>> the symlink looks created as ocfs2cdsl doesn't return an error
>> but while trying to access the file the symlink can't be resolved.
>>
>> I found an old thread about that on this list, dated 15 Aug 2007, from which
>> I understandthat CDSL feature isn't supported in the recent versions of ocfs2.
>> So there is no chance to have this feature back a day or I have all wrong ?
> 
> 	The mainline linux kernel developers have decided that CDSLs are
> not something they will accept.  As such, ocfs2 in mainline does not
> support them, and production ocfs2 1.4 and later do not either.
They should have good reasons.

> 	The recommended solution from the kernel developers is bind
> mounts. You can set those up on your own system via startup scripts.
Yes, I already put this "workaround" in place but I'm going to fall back to symlinks
pointing to the local ext3 partition which is mounted as / , which is more simple and stupid.

Aurelien