[klibc] klibc and what's the next step?

Andi Kleen ak at suse.de
Tue Jun 27 10:40:46 PDT 2006


On Tuesday 27 June 2006 19:11, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Jeff Garzik <jeff at garzik.org> writes:
> >> MD/DM root setup,
> > 
> > That would require pulling the tools for that into the kernel source right?
> > Not sure that's a good idea. Do you really want /usr/src/linux/liblvm ? 
> > 
> 
> Only enough to bring up the filesystem.  This is, of course, already the 
> case for MD.  That code has (mostly) not yet been moved to userspace, 
> but that is definitely on the road map going forward.

But not for LVM where this can be fairly complex.

And next would be probably iSCSI. Maybe it's better to leave some stuff
in initramfs. 

-Andi



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