From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269369AbUHZTeA (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:34:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269517AbUHZT2c (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:28:32 -0400 Received: from 18-165-237-24-mvl.nwc.gci.net ([24.237.165.18]:12780 "EHLO nevaeh-linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269498AbUHZT0B (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:26:01 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:24:38 -0800 (AKDT) From: Arthur Corliss X-X-Sender: acorliss@bifrost.nevaeh-linux.org To: Tim Schmielau cc: Andrew Morton , Jay Lan , lkml , erikj@dbear.engr.sgi.com, limin@engr.sgi.com, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, =?X-UNKNOWN?Q?Ragnar_Kj=F8rstad?= , Yoshitaka ISHIKAWA , Guillaume Thouvenin Subject: Re: [PATCH] new CSA patchset for 2.6.8 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <412D2E10.8010406@engr.sgi.com> <20040825221842.72dd83a4.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Score: -1.97 () AWL,BAYES_00 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Tim Schmielau wrote: > Therefore I've Cc:ed some people from whom I got valuable feedback on the > BSD accounting format patch. > > IMHO CSA, ELSA and BSD accounting are too similar to have more than one of > them in the kernel. We should either improve BSD accounting to do the job, > or kill it in favor of a different implementation. I would be very interested in a CSA implementation similar to what I have on IRIX. I will also plead guilty to not having downloaded the updated patches for either the kernel or the tools. I'm continuing to use my poor hack until a permanent solution gets accepted into the kernel, at which point I'll adopt that. And if it counters the impression at all, I'm not a kernel developer, I proposed my hack out of need as a user of the tools. I also try to stay away from modified kernels, so I'm running Marcelos' 2.4 stable branch with only the 32bit u/gid_t hack applied. That's why I haven't had any feedback on the -mm branch. In short, for my use BSD accounting is sufficient, but I'd love to see CSA in Linux as well. Linux hasn't moved too far into roles where it's a necessity (for what I'm doing, anyway), but I see CSA as something that would certainly help it assume those roles. --Arthur Corliss Bolverk's Lair -- http://arthur.corlissfamily.org/ Digital Mages -- http://www.digitalmages.com/ "Live Free or Die, the Only Way to Live" -- NH State Motto