From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: [PATCH] xenctld - a control channel multiplexing daemon Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:28:04 -0600 Message-ID: <1106778484.7268.2.camel@localhost> References: <1106322956.17263.26.camel@localhost> <1106698862.19729.40.camel@dyn318051bld.beaverton.ibm.com> <1106767902.25573.7.camel@localhost> <1106769687.25575.21.camel@localhost> <1106774503.6276.4.camel@DYN319619.beaverton.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1106774503.6276.4.camel@DYN319619.beaverton.ibm.com> Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Daniel Stekloff Cc: andrew.warfield@cl.cam.ac.uk, Michael Hohnbaum , xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Keir Fraser List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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/) or as a pid-like > > /proc entry (like /proc/xen/). > > > 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl