Re: Back to the future.

[Oliver Neukum]

Am Freitag, 27. April 2007 12:12 schrieb Pekka J Enberg:
> I am talking about snapshot_system() here. It's not given that the 
> filesystems need to be read-only (you can snapshot them too). The benefit 
> here is that you can do whatever you want with the snapshot (encrypt, 
> compress, send over the network)  and have a clean well-defined interface 
> in the kernel. In addition, aborting the snapshot is simpler, simply 
> munmap() the snapshot.

But is that worth the trade off?

> The problem with writing in the kernel is obvious: we need to add new code 
> to the kernel for compression, encryption, and userspace interaction 
> (graphical progress bar) that are important for user experience.

The kernel can already do compression and encryption.

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