GPFS VFS module

[Michael Adam]

pushed to master, v3-3-test, v3-2-test (and v3-2-ctdb).

Not pushed to v3-0-test (yet?), since the patch does not apply
any more and needs to be adapted.

Cheers - Michael

Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:00:12AM +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Ok, different reason: We need to try both libgpfs and
> libgpfs_gpl, as there are versions around that have some
> symbols in one library and other symbols in the other one.
> Difficult historic reasons, but that's the way it is.
> 
> Volker

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