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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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Subject: Re: debugfs oddity
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On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 09:20:46AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 22:28 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > sysfs works much differently here, as does configfs.  debugfs just uses
> > the vfs layer's ramfs stack, so any potential problem here is probably
> > also present in ramfs.  Have you tried that out?
> 
> Just had a go -- ramfs works as expected, at least when I do the dance
> from userspace as I had in (a')-(d').

I don't understand.  Does ramfs have the same issues you feel debugfs
has?  Or does it work like a disk based file system?

thanks,

greg k-h