From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Berra Subject: Re: [[Patch mdadm] 2/5] Move the files mdmon opens into /dev/ to support handoff after pivotroot Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 13:14:58 +0100 Message-ID: <20100205121458.GA23870@maude.comedia.it> References: <1263242294-5353-1-git-send-email-dledford@redhat.com> <1263242294-5353-3-git-send-email-dledford@redhat.com> <20100119110930.107ca42e@notabene> <4B55F138.7060008@redhat.com> <20100204174009.6072ec07@notabene.brown> <4B6B15B3.8030205@redhat.com> <4B6B64A7.4010003@tmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B6B64A7.4010003@tmr.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 07:21:59PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> 1/ If you take a look at native md superblock support you see that the >> support code is duplicated between kernel-space and user space, having >> it all handled in userspace means only one code base to maintain >> (elegant aspect #1). >> > > That is the decision which I question. Having anything mission critical in > user space means that there suddenly arise ownership, privilege and > scheduling issues which just don't exist for things in the kernel. lol @ /sbin/mount -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \