From: Arthur C. <co...@di...> - 2004-08-26 19:25:28
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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Tim Schmielau wrote: <snip> > Therefore I've Cc:ed some people from whom I got valuable feedback on the > BSD accounting format patch. > > IMHO CSA, ELSA and BSD accounting are too similar to have more than one of > them in the kernel. We should either improve BSD accounting to do the job, > or kill it in favor of a different implementation. I would be very interested in a CSA implementation similar to what I have on IRIX. I will also plead guilty to not having downloaded the updated patches for either the kernel or the tools. I'm continuing to use my poor hack until a permanent solution gets accepted into the kernel, at which point I'll adopt that. And if it counters the impression at all, I'm not a kernel developer, I proposed my hack out of need as a user of the tools. I also try to stay away from modified kernels, so I'm running Marcelos' 2.4 stable branch with only the 32bit u/gid_t hack applied. That's why I haven't had any feedback on the -mm branch. In short, for my use BSD accounting is sufficient, but I'd love to see CSA in Linux as well. Linux hasn't moved too far into roles where it's a necessity (for what I'm doing, anyway), but I see CSA as something that would certainly help it assume those roles. --Arthur Corliss Bolverk's Lair -- http://arthur.corlissfamily.org/ Digital Mages -- http://www.digitalmages.com/ "Live Free or Die, the Only Way to Live" -- NH State Motto |