Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:06:11 +1300 | From | Sam Vilain <> | Subject | Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 0/2] resource control file system - aka containers on top of nsproxy! |
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Herbert Poetzl wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:44:58PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> I really don't much care as long as we don't start redefining >> container as something else. I think the IBM guys took it from >> solaris originally which seems to define a zone as a set of >> isolated processes (for us all separate namespaces). And a container >> as a set of as a zone that uses resource control. Not exactly how >> we have been using the term but close enough not to confuse someone. >> >> As long as we don't go calling the individual subsystems or the >> process groups they need to function a container I really don't care. >> [...] >> Resource groups at least for subset of subsystems that aren't >> namespaces sounds reasonable. Heck resource group, resource >> controller, resource subsystem, resource just about anything seems >> sane to me. >> >> The important part is that we find a vocabulary without doubly >> defined words so we can communicate and a small common set we can >> agree on so people can work on and implement the individual >> resource controllers/groups, and get the individual pieces merged >> as they are reading. >> > > from my personal PoV the following would be fine: > > spaces (for the various 'spaces') > > - similar enough to the old namespace > - can be easily used with prefix/postfix > like in pid_space, mnt_space, uts_space etc > - AFAIK, it is not used yet for anything else > > container (for resource accounting/limits) > > - has the 'containment' principle built in :) > - is used in similar ways in other solutions > - sounds similar to context (easy to associate) > > note: I'm also fine with other names, as long as > we find some useable vocabulary soon, [...]
I like these a lot, particularly in that "mount space" could be a reasonable replacement for "namespace".
As a result of this discussion, I see the sense in Paul Menage's original choice of term.
There's just one problem. We'd have to rename the mailing list to "spaces and containers" :-)
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