GPFS VFS module

[Volker Lendecke]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:34:10AM +0100, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> Volker Lendecke schrieb:
> > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 01:28:54PM +0100, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> >> what's the reason for not just linking against -lgpfs or -lgpfs_gpl
> >> instead of using dlopen()?
> > 
> > The original idea was to ship that stuff in standard
> > distributions like RHEL which do not have GPFS around by
> > default.
> > 
> > Mathias, is this still a requirement?
> 
> But you need to have the libgpfs-devel package installed
> at build time anyway and when vfs_gpfs is build as shared module
> smbd would not link to -lgpfs directly.

Ah, ok, you can have a library dependency in a .so that is
loaded by dlopen()? I did not know that.

Volker
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