Re: [PATCH] xenctld - a control channel multiplexing daemon

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 15:21, Daniel Stekloff wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 12:01, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > You mentioned the current design looks a lot like a file system, any
> > thoughts on actually using the file system?  Either within the normal
> > file system (within something like /var/xen/<domid>) or as a pid-like
> > /proc entry (like /proc/xen/<domid>).
> 
> 
> Do you really want the store in Kernel Space? Wouldn't it be better if
> it were stored in User Space? Could you restart Dom0 if it's in Dom0?
> Wouldn't it be better to store out on disk that can be recovered? You
> could use the store for more than the above, domain configuration could
> be stored and accessed there. 

Yup.  Automatic relaunching of domains wouldn't work if it was in kernel
space.

A downside of using disk also would be that you couldn't enforce any
sort of schema.

> Thanks,
> Dan
-- 
Anthony Liguori
Linux Technology Center (LTC) - IBM Austin
E-mail: aliguori@us.ibm.com
Phone: (512) 838-1208




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