Re: [PATCH 15/39] NLKD - early pseudo-fs

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>>> Al Viro <[email protected]> 09.11.05 16:00:57 >>>
>On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 03:37:02PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >What the hell for?  We _already_ have a way to get any set of
files
>> in
>> >a filesystem as soon as we have VFS caches set up (and until then
you
>> >can't open anything anyway).
>> 
>> That's the whole point - a debugger wants this *before* VFS is set
up
>> (and thus obviously without going through VFS in the first place).
One
>> may argue that the naming is odd, but that's nothing I really care
>> about.
>> 
>> >NAK.
>> 
>> Then suggest an alternative solution.
>
>"Reduce the parts of your config needed that early on to something
>saner in size"

That is no solution. Take a look at what can be configured in NLKD, and
tell me what you'd call a 'saner in size' subset. I can't think of
anything that can be left out; instead, the amount of configurable
things will only grow over time.

Jan
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