Re: [RFC] High-speed data relay filesystem

From: Hanna Linder (hannal@us.ibm.com)
Date: Tue Jan 07 2003 - 13:44:58 EST


--On Tuesday, January 07, 2003 01:09:35 PM -0500 Karim Yaghmour <karim@opersys.com> wrote:

>
> As I mentioned earlier on this list, there is an increasing number
> of facilities and tools that need to relay large amounts of data from
> kernel space to user space. Up to this point, each of these has had
> its own mechanism for relaying data. The following is a proposal to
> implement a "high-speed data relay filesystem" (relayfs) that would
> supersede the individual mechanisms. As such, things like LTT, printk,

        Karim, This seeems like a good idea. A standard mechanism
for tools to access kernel info could be very useful. Im curious
what other people who work on tools think about this?

Hanna

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