Re: the "cluster" system call (and file system type)

["Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>]

irbis@orcero.org writes:

>>>  Better focused, something like a /proc filesystem. :-)
>>
>> Part of the objection to including mosix as-is into the kernel
>> is all the mucking it does in /proc.  This point was made
>> early on by very possibly Alan himself.   So by mounting

I think I've heard Alexander Viro and Linus Torvalds both
complaining about /proc. One of them called it a dumping ground.

>  Well, if this is the only one problem, let it be in "/cluster". ;-)
...
>  All the subsystems lay on "/proc". I can not understand why clusters
> subsistems should be different. I thing that the best is finnaly
> integrating clustering into the kernel, and that Linux became a

Not everything is in /proc now. These are filesystems:

/dev            if using devfs
/dev/shm        for shared memory
/dev/pty        for new-style PTY devices
/proc           yeah, it isn't going away
/proc/openprom  something for Suns that used to be part of /proc

Just forget about adding a big tree of stuff in /proc.
Adding a single file won't get you flamed very much.
The same goes in /dev.


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