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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Peter J. Braam" <braam@clusterfs.com>
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Subject: Re: 9/10 intermezzos prefer eating memory
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"Peter J. Braam" <braam@clusterfs.com> wrote:
>
>  
> Hi Andrew, 
> 
> I would just like to say that I have no difficulties with intermezzo being
> rm -rf'd.  There are probably only a handful of users.   
> 
> In the past 4 years nobody has supported InterMezzo sufficiently for it to
> become successful. I have been fortunate to get really good support for the
> Lustre project.  So I have focussed on that.  Lustre 1.X has become really
> solid.
> 
> The disconnected operation, caching and mirroring functionality of
> InterMezzo will become available in Lustre as a new feature in version 2.  
> 
> So I see no point in keeping InterMezzo if it is a nuisance.  
> 
> I am also entirely happy to ask my one part time InterMezzo programmer to do
> a better job of repeatedly sending pathes until they are in.
> 
> Please guide me along.  Thanks!
> 

Thanks - such opportunities are all too rare.

Are there any distro people out there who have a significant Intermezzo
user base, or who see any problems with this?