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Subject: Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 0/5] Allow more than PAGESIZE data read in
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From: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
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On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 17:16 -0700, Paul Jackson wrote:

<snip>

> For those of us whose brains don't hold so many details at once,
> creating a new file system can seem a bit daunting.  And for those
> of us not skilled in the art, it is more likely to end up being
> 300 lines of code, presenting several good provocations for a Hellwig
> or a Viro to curse in the general direction of their monitors.

Definitely.

> Instead of trying to hijack configfs to purposes ill suited for it,
> I wonder if there isn't someway to lower the hurdles that us mere
> mortals must leap to creating additional filesystems.

	Again, I don't think using configfs to define groups of tasks is
ill-suited to the purpose of configfs. I think we're confusing the
limitations of the implementation with the purpose for having configfs
in addition to sysfs.

Cheers,
	-Matt Helsley

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