Re: [RFC] High-speed data relay filesystem

Hanna Linder
2003-01-07T18:28:00Z

--On Tuesday, January 07, 2003 01:09:35 PM -0500 Karim Yaghmour <karim@opersys.com> wrote:

>
> As I mentioned earlier on this list, there is an increasing number
> of facilities and tools that need to relay large amounts of data from
> kernel space to user space. Up to this point, each of these has had
> its own mechanism for relaying data. The following is a proposal to
> implement a "high-speed data relay filesystem" (relayfs) that would
> supersede the individual mechanisms. As such, things like LTT, printk,

Karim, This seeems like a good idea. A standard mechanism
for tools to access kernel info could be very useful. Im curious
what other people who work on tools think about this?

Hanna