Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750732AbWBEOzQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Feb 2006 09:55:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750889AbWBEOzP (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Feb 2006 09:55:15 -0500 Received: from 7ka-campus-gw.mipt.ru ([194.85.83.97]:4056 "EHLO 7ka-campus-gw.mipt.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750732AbWBEOzO (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Feb 2006 09:55:14 -0500 Message-ID: <43E61145.6080707@sw.ru> Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 17:52:53 +0300 From: Kirill Korotaev User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050715) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Kirill Korotaev , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , frankeh@watson.ibm.com, clg@fr.ibm.com, haveblue@us.ibm.com, greg@kroah.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, serue@us.ibm.com, arjan@infradead.org, Rik van Riel , Alexey Kuznetsov , Andrey Savochkin , devel@openvz.org, Pavel Emelianov Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup References: <43E38BD1.4070707@openvz.org> <43E3915A.2080000@sw.ru> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1662 Lines: 40 >> Do you have any other ideas/comments on this? >> I will send additional IPC/filesystems virtualization patches a bit later. > > I think that a patch like this - particularly just the 1/5 part - makes > total sense, because regardless of any other details of virtualization, > every single scheme is going to need this. > > So I think at least 1/5 (and quite frankly, 2-3/5 look that way too) are > things that we can (and probably should) merge quickly, so that people can > then actually look at the differences in the places that they may actually > disagree about. Can we merge also proc/sysfs/network/netfilters virtualization? > In other words, I personally would have called them "container" or > something similar, rather than "vps_info". See? From a logical > implementation standpoint, the fact that it is right now most commonly > used for VPS hosting is totally irrelevant to the code, no? > > (And hey, maybe your "vps" means something different. In which case my > argument makes even more sense ;) virtual private sandbox :) Actually, we call them "virtual environments" (VE) in OpenVZ. It is more than abstract and have a nice brief name. If this suits you - I will be happy to commit patches as is :) other variants: virtual context (vc, vctx), virtual containers (vc). I personally don't like "container", since it is too long and I see no good abreviations for this... Kirill - 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/