[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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