Re: [PATCH] s390: Hypervisor File System

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 07:23:41AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> If the count of values handled in a transaction is not to high and it
> makes sense to group these values logically, why not just create an
> attribute group for every transaction, which creates dummy attributes
> to fill the values in, and use an "action" file in that group, that
> commits all the values at once to whatever target? That should fit into
> the ioctl use pattern, right?

That's what configfs can handle easier.  I think the issue is getting
stuff from the kernel in one atomic snapshot (all the different file
values from the same point in time.)

thanks,

greg k-h