Re: [PATCH] s390: Hypervisor File System

["Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>]

On Wed, 3 May 2006 11:33:01 +0200, 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.

s/single file/single entity/ and this may be useful.  Your filesystem
exports a directory tree, which is nice and easily parsable.  The
problem is that it is a single resource for everyone.  If different
users could have their own views of this filesystem, each with a
private snapshot, many problems would be solved.

Spufs might have something similar already.  Istr something about
returning a directory fd and then using openat(2) and friends.

Jörn

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