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From: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/10] AXFS: axfs_profiling.c
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David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 10:44 +0200, Carsten Otte wrote:
>> Jared Hulbert wrote:
>>> Profiling is a fault instrumentation and /proc formating system.
>>> This is used to get an accurate picture of what the pages are actually used.
>>> Using this info the image can be optimized for XIP
> 
>> Exporting profiling data for a file system in another file system 
>> (/proc) seems not very straigtforward to me. I think it is worth 
>> considering to export this information via the same mount point.
> 
> I would have said sysfs, rather than 'the same mount point'.
Well, filesystems are usually not represented in the device model. 
It'd be possible to add a system device for it, but that does'nt feel 
like the right solution to me.
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