Re: reiser4 as module

[Jeff Davis <reiser-list@empires.org>]

> I don't know how to get UML to work with reiser4, but I'm sure it can be
> done, as I've heard Namesys people say they use that to develop under.
> So there, yes, you'd have to reboot your UML kernel, but you could be
> doing other things while that happened -- and it wouldn't take long for
> it to reboot anyway.
> 

Thanks. I think I'll try UML, I've been meaning to try that for a while.

> Possible, and may have some other uses.  But why would anyone want to
> put config files in a database?  With reiser4's handling of small files
> and things like NFS, I can't find a single reason.  Also, if you're

My idea was more from concern about duplicating data. Let's say it's DNS
data that you already have in a SQL database, and you just want the
named.conf to reflect the data without using update scripts.

> going to start python, run a python script which accesses a database,
> take the results and send them to kernel space, then back to user space,
> you're talking about serious performance issues vs. just leaving the
> config files alone, as flat text.

Yeah, which sometimes matters, and sometimes doesn't (like when reading
a config file).

> cd /path/to
> mkfifo script.pipe
> while true; do
> 	./script.py > script.pipe;
> done

Wow. I feel dumb. That pretty much takes care of my problems right
there. Thanks for educating me.

Regards,
	Jeff