[Lustre-devel] Queries regarding LDLM_ENQUEUE

[bzzz.tomas at gmail.com]

On 10/20/10 10:01 PM, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>> I guess for this purpose they may just disable SOM and do few steps away
>> from POSIX. probably inter-client data consistency isn't that important
>> any more ;) then get rid of MDS and namespace completely using some sort
>> of FID.
>
> I don't think that most customers want to drop POSIX and namespaces completely, because of the huge numbers of tools/apps that depend on this, but rather to have an API that can improve the performance of select applications that have a need for it.

oh, sorry for this sort of joke.. what I mean is that
probably we could provide with another user-visible
API which allows to bypass regular namespace, for example.

thanks, z