Re: [ANNOUNCE] Minneapolis Cluster Summit, July 29-30

From: Arjan van de Ven (arjanv_at_redhat.com)
Date: 07/12/04

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    Date:	Mon, 12 Jul 2004 14:01:27 +0200
To: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>

    On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 01:50:03PM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
    >
    > True enough, but I'm somewhat unhappy with this still. So whenever we
    > have something like that we need to move it into the kernel space?
    > (pvmove first, and now the clustering etc.) Can't we come up with a way
    > to export this flag to user-space?

    I'm not convinced that's a good idea, in that it exposes what is basically VM internals
    to userspace, which then would become a set-in-stone interface....

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