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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] Statsfs: a new ram-based file system for Linux
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> I don't really know a lot about the networking subsystem, and as it was
> pointed out in another email on patch 7 by Andrew, networking needs to
> atomically gather and display statistics in order to make them consistent,
> and currently this is not supported by stats_fs but could be added in
> future.

Hi Emanuele

Do you have any idea how you will support atomic access? It does not
seem easy to implement in a filesystem based model.

     Andrew