Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759256AbaGDRhr (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2014 13:37:47 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:55727 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755999AbaGDRhq (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2014 13:37:46 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 10:37:19 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Richard Weinberger Cc: Thomas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sch=F6bel-Theuer?= , LKML , Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Selling Points for MARS Light Message-ID: <20140704173719.GC25992@kroah.com> References: <53B6897F.6020802@schoebel-theuer.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 03:04:07PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: > On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Thomas Sch?bel-Theuer > wrote: > > Hi together, > > > > since not all people have attended my presentations on MARS Light, and > > since probably not all are willing to click at links such as to the > > presentation slides > > https://github.com/schoebel/mars/blob/master/docu/MARS_LinuxTag2014.pdf?raw=true > > , I will try to explain something which goes beyond the presentations, > > but nevertheless I don't want to repeat too much from the slides. > > > > So the following is hopefully also interesting for people who attended > > the presentations. > > > > My main selling point: > > > > To my knowledge, MARS Light is the only enterprise-grade opensource > > solution constructed for mass replication of whole datacenters > > (thousands to tenthousands of instances) over _long_ _distances_, aka > > _geo-redundancy_. > > I think hch meant not a high level marketing-drone -ready design document > by "explain and sell your design". > We are interested in the real low level design ideas. > i.e. Why do you need all syscalls exported? Exactly, normally we don't care about any high-level things, I want to know why you think you have to call remove within a kernel module when no one else does that. Also, I doubt you handle the namespace issue properly, but given that it is impossible to review the 50+ patches as sent, it might be correct, or might not, I don't know... greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/