Re: [RFC] High-speed data relay filesystem

[Hanna Linder]

--On Tuesday, January 07, 2003 01:09:35 PM -0500 Karim Yaghmour <[e-mail]> wrote:

> 
> As I mentioned earlier on this list, there is an increasing number
> of facilities and tools that need to relay large amounts of data from
> kernel space to user space. Up to this point, each of these has had
> its own mechanism for relaying data. The following is a proposal to
> implement a "high-speed data relay filesystem" (relayfs) that would
> supersede the individual mechanisms. As such, things like LTT, printk,

	Karim, This seeems like a good idea. A standard mechanism
for tools to access kernel info could be very useful. Im curious
what other people who work on tools think about this?

Hanna