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From: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: "local" communications
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:10:48 -0700
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Ian Pratt wrote:

> For relatively static stuff (e.g. textual configuration data), it would
> be reasonable to use xenbus/xenstore. We could give each domain a
> subtree in the store that it can read/write via a /proc/sys interface.

Ian, how flexible is the format/layout of the xenstore going to
be? Does it allow for more of a general purpose use? That would
be neat..

thanks,
Nivedita