RE: [RFC] persistent store (version 2) (part 1 of 2)

[Luck, Tony]

> filenames refer to files!  And lo, that's what we have here.  A
> filesystem!  The files are created by the kernel and are read and
> unlinked by userspace.
>
> So why not implement this whole thing as a proper filesystem?
...
> Wait.  It *is* a filesystem.
...
> So why can't I remove these "records" with rm?

Because I tried to use /sys for this and couldn't find a
way to get notified about "unlink".  Alan Cox called this
bit "daft" in v1 (and I agreed with him). Peter Anvin gave
me some pointers on how easy this would be to do as a real
filesystem ... so v3 will be out in a little while with
this insanity removed.

I'll roll in fixes to address your other comments too.

Thanks for the review.

-Tony
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