Re: [PATCH 05/10] AXFS: axfs_profiling.c

[Carsten Otte]

David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 10:44 +0200, Carsten Otte wrote:
> > Jared Hulbert wrote:
> > > Profiling is a fault instrumentation and /proc formating system.
> > > This is used to get an accurate picture of what the pages are actually used.
> > > Using this info the image can be optimized for XIP
>
> > Exporting profiling data for a file system in another file system 
> > (/proc) seems not very straigtforward to me. I think it is worth 
> > considering to export this information via the same mount point.
>
> I would have said sysfs, rather than 'the same mount point'.
Well, filesystems are usually not represented in the device model. 
It'd be possible to add a system device for it, but that does'nt feel 
like the right solution to me.
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