Messages in this thread | | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: State of the new config & build system | Date | Fri, 04 Jan 2002 07:46:49 +1100 |
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On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 15:35:19 -0500 (EST), Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote: >On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Dave Jones wrote: >> And being able to NFS share 1 kernel tree, and be able to do parallel >> builds on multiple boxes without having to wait until 1 is finished. > > Sigh... As soon as we get to prototype change in >getattr()/setattr()/permission() - we get CoW fs. I.e. equivalent of >*BSD unionfs. I hope to get around to that stuff around 2.5.4 or so.
Unionfs and cow fs will be nice but kernel build will not use it. Users can build a Linux kernel on other operating systems, including Solaris, Irix, Cygwin etc. kbuild requires a Posix compliant fs and GNU tools, but it must not use additional fs features that only exist on Linux or only on specific versions of Linux.
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