Re: [PATCH 15/39] NLKD - early pseudo-fs

From: Al Viro
Date: Wed Nov 09 2005 - 10:01:26 EST


On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 03:37:02PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >What the hell for? We _already_ have a way to get any set of files
> in
> >a filesystem as soon as we have VFS caches set up (and until then you
> >can't open anything anyway).
>
> That's the whole point - a debugger wants this *before* VFS is set up
> (and thus obviously without going through VFS in the first place). One
> may argue that the naming is odd, but that's nothing I really care
> about.
>
> >NAK.
>
> Then suggest an alternative solution.

"Reduce the parts of your config needed that early on to something
saner in size"
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