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SubjectRe: [PATCH] s390: Hypervisor File System
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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