On Friday, 27 April 2007 23:44, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > Why do you think that keeping the user space frozen after 'snapshot' is a > > bad > > idea? I think that solves many of the problems you're discussing. > > It makes it harder to debug (wouldn't it be *nice* to just ssh in, and do > > gdb -p <snapshotter> > > when something goes wrong?) but we also *depend* on user space for various > things (the same way we depend on kernel threads, and why it has been such > a total disaster to try to freeze the kernel threads too!).
We're freezing many of them just fine. ;-) > For example, if you want to do graphical stuff, just using X would be quite > nice, wouldn't it? Yes, it would, but as long as we can't protect mounted filesystems from being touched, it's just dangerous to let the user space run at that point. > But I do agree that doing everythign in the kernel is likely to just be a > hell of a lot simpler for everybody. :-) Greetings, Rafael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/