[Pvfs2-users] How
Rob Ross
rross at mcs.anl.gov
Wed Jun 7 13:28:38 EDT 2006
I agree that we should tune the wording here for clarity. Thanks Aresky
and Nathan.
Rob
Nathan Poznick wrote:
> Thus spake Aresky Aresky:
>> These statments confused me .
>
> You're getting 2 different things confused. The libpvfs2 that PVFS2
> provides is not suitable for use as a target for application developers.
>
> The I/O interface that is mentioned, is the Linux kernel module for
> PVFS2. If you compile and install the kernel module on your client
> systems, you can use mount(8) to mount PVFS2 filesystems, and interact
> with them with open/read/write/close just as you normally would any
> other filesystem.
>
> I think perhaps the wording in section 5.1 of the PVFS2 guide could be
> reworded to be a bit clearer.
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