Re: [coLinux-devel] /dev/hd* vs. /dev/cobd*

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If I am not mistaken changing the filesystem would require patching the
kernel used for the native mode boot. I think it would be best to have a
system that could use a stock kernel when booting natively. Also this
would limit the choice of filesystem used so if this was added to ext3
then people would not be able to use reiserfs.

there should be plenty of ways to handle this in init scripts.
someone on this list once refered me to hprofile
http://hprofile.sourceforge.net/
but it is a bit complex and has features that would not easily work with
all distro's

with the fstab problem solved networking would be the only other thing
that I can think of off hand. I'll try to give this some thought
how about some ideas of other things that might need changed.

How about a "coetc" image that could be mounted on etc? a pre init script
could do this without an fstab entry. Just throwing an idea out there I
havn't completely thought it through yet.

chris

>
> I've often thought it would be useful in many contexts to have indirect
> symlinks.  Specifically a symlinks which returns a file based on an
> entry in a database.  This file could be a real file based on some
> calculation or even a window onto a file or database.
>

>
> all if I have to guess, I would create a new inode code or type.
> Something to identify the entry.  It would functionally be the same as
> symlink so we could reuse is much of that path as possible.  I wish I
> knew whether or not something like the VFS layer would be a good point
> for file switching but assuming it is, as soon as you could detect that
> you had a indirect link, you would do a look up in a database or dbm
> file for the original path, what you need to run to generates the real
> path and once you have the real path, return the appropriate information
> (real inode etc. etc.)
>
> again, this is extremely crude guess based on very old knowledge but
> just trying to give some structure to the idea.
>
>
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