[Gluster-devel] Re: Current FUSE requirements to support flock()

[Anand Avati]

> I performed these tests with the 2.7.4-1.el5.rf version of the FUSE
> userspace tools, in case that matters.
>
> I'm guessing the MySQL issue is the one resolved with a custom patch last
> year: http://www.mail-archive.com/gluster-devel@nongnu.org/msg02947.html
>
> Is there much hope of getting the MySQL FUSE patch into the main kernel?  Is
> the only necessary change the one to dev.c?

yes, the tgid change is needed (present in the glfs patch) for
glusterfs to work well with mysql (any multithreaded app in general)

avati