Re: Switching from IOCTLs to a RAMFS

From: Patrick Mochel (mochel@osdl.org)
Date: Thu Oct 24 2002 - 11:35:18 EST


On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Mark Peloquin wrote:

>
> Based on the feedback and comments regarding
> the use of IOCTLs in EVMS, we are switching to
> the more preferred method of using a ram based
> fs. Since we are going through this effort, I
> would like to get it right now, rather than
> having to switch to another ramfs system later
> on. The question I have is: should we roll our
> own fs, (a.k.a. evmsfs) or should we use sysfs
> for this purpose? My initial thoughts are that
> sysfs should be used. However, recent discussions
> about device mapper have suggested a custom ramfs.
> Which is the *best* choice?

Use sysfs, please. Coming out of the kernel summit, the goal was to move
as much stuff to a ramfs-based system, rather than ioctl and procfs, and
Linus explicitly said to try and put them all in the same filesystem.

        -pat

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Oct 31 2002 - 22:00:23 EST