Re: [RFC] per-driver filesystems made easy

[Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>]

On Sunday 12 May 2002 14:01, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Sun, 12 May 2002, Norbert Sendetzky wrote:
> > I am wondering if this information isn't something that should be
> > located in a subdirectory of /proc, shouldn't it? And perhaps it
>
> No, it shouldn't.  Basically, it's an example of doing things
> without touching dungpiles - devfs, procfs and ioctls.  Aside of
> the fact that procfs is extremely ugly, it's bloated, choke-full of
> races and has zero granularity - it's all or nothing.  It's also a
> shared namespace - and we all know how well does that idea work;
> just look at NetSol<spit>...

Was there already any discussion about breaking procfs into serveral 
independent pieces like the one you have done and rebuilding the 
procfs tree by mounting these pieces unter /proc? Perhaps this could 
solve most of problems of procfs has today and will provide all 
things you want (small independent subtrees, granularity, multiple 
namespaces).


Norbert