Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...]
> I think the exokernel approach by Frans is a very interesting approach. > I wish I had the experience with it necessary to know if it was > effective. I do NOT take the position that name resolution should be in > the kernel. I DO take the position that it should be either in the > kernel or out of the kernel, and should constitute one cohesive and > coherent body of code. Right. > If someone talks Linus into trying the exokernel > approach, Are you nuts?! Such radical experiments do /not/ belong in the kernel on which millions of machines depend! Go and fork off a branch to play around with this, and if it does show real promise, you can then come back and try to integrate this into the official kernel. > I will be happy to educate myself to where I have an opinion > on whether that works. It is easy to see powerful advantages to the > exokernel approach: I wish I understood the security model for it, and I > wish I was sure that name resolution would not require too many context > switches as one fetches each storage component required by a name > resolution. Exactly the kinds of questions that have to get solid answers before any experimental patches can get off the ground. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
