Messages in this thread | | | From | "Matthew D. Pitts" <> | Subject | Re: [Cooker] (RFC) Supermount 2 | Date | Mon, 25 Mar 2002 08:05:20 -0500 |
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Alan,
I suspect I'll hear from Juan on this. And I am going to look at your code...
I realize it will be hard if I start from scratch. Since I was planning to do it in 2.5.x it will be easier for me to learn how to avoid the problems that plague the older versions.
Matthew ----- Original Message ----- From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: <danny@mailmij.org> Cc: <cooker@linux-mandrake.com>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 8:05 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] (RFC) Supermount 2
> > > 3) Built-in support for packet-writing. ( i.e. insert packet-writing formatted disk and it loads appropriate kernel modules. ) > > > > > > There may be other features added if there is an interest in them. I will need assistance with the packet-writing support. I am only planning to do this for the 2.5.x and later kernels, so if anyone else wishes to back-port it to an older kerenl series, by all means do so. I have wanted to make some kind of contribution to this project for some time and I feel that this is something that will be useful. > > > > > What about doing it in userspace? I remember seeing Alan Cox writing he > > had a proof of concept of something like this on some ftp server (sorry, > > cannot remember where). > > http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan - you want volumagic. Its a demo of > the theory (but quite usable). > > Doing supermount in kernel is suprisingly hard, the locking and races you get > into are not nice at all - ask Juan about that > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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