Daniel Phillips wrote:

On Saturday 31 July 2004 12:00, Walker, Bruce J wrote:

quoted

In the 2.4 implementation, providing this one capability by
leveraging devfs was quite economic, efficient and has been very stable.

I wonder if device-mapper (slightly hacked) wouldn't be a better approach for 
2.6+.

It appeared from the original posting that their "cluster-wide devfs" 
actually supported all types of device nodes, not just block devices. I 
don't know whether accessing a character device on another node would 
ever be useful, but certainly using device-mapper wouldn't help for that 
case.