Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965133AbWECJmG (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 05:42:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965136AbWECJmG (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 05:42:06 -0400 Received: from courier.cs.helsinki.fi ([128.214.9.1]:7069 "EHLO mail.cs.helsinki.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965133AbWECJmF (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 05:42:05 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 12:42:01 +0300 (EEST) From: Pekka J Enberg To: Michael Holzheu cc: Kyle Moffett , akpm@osdl.org, Greg KH , ioe-lkml@rameria.de, joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mschwid2@de.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390: Hypervisor File System In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 717 Lines: 16 On Wed, 3 May 2006, Michael Holzheu wrote: > All the complicated mechanisms with filesystem trees > to obtain consistent data and transaction functionality > could be avoided, if we would use single files, which > contain all the data. When opening the file, the snapshot > is created and attached to the struct file. If we're going to add new infrastructure, I'd vote for adding snapshotting capability to filesystems. We need it for stuff like LogFS anyway. Pekka - 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/