Messages in this thread | | | From | Mike Diehl <> | Subject | Re: [Evms-devel] EVMS announcement | Date | Tue, 5 Nov 2002 21:54:08 -0500 |
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On Tuesday 05 November 2002 11:48 pm, Alexander Viro wrote: > On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Mike Diehl wrote: > > Na, I can't ignore the debate. I can't wait to see how user-land > > descovery will be implemented. There is something intrinsically > > "nice" about having an OS automatically discover every aspect of a > > machine I'm installing on. I > > Kernel _can't_ do that. In principle. Simply because part of the > kernel that would know how to talk with that PCI card (which just > happens to be a SCSI adapter) happens to be a module that lives on a > filesystem that lives on a different server and will be accessible > only after we configure this NIC. There is no way in hell to tell > what devices sit on the SCSI bus behind that card. Not without > userland participation in the process.
I don't know about you, but my NIC, fs, and Disk drivers are compiled into my kernel. But what you describe is also pretty cool. I could have a central server and the rest of my machines would simply become part of a cluster and use the same drives, for the most part. Neat.
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