Re: [Evms-devel] EVMS announcement

[Mike Diehl]

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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