linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] resource control file system

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Message-ID: <45EF5E71.7090101@vilain.net>
Date:	Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:53:05 +1300
From:	Sam Vilain <sam@...ain.net>
To:	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ibm.com>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, pj@....com, dev@...ru, xemul@...ru,
	containers@...ts.osdl.org, winget@...gle.com,
	ckrm-tech@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] resource control file system - aka containers on
 top of nsproxy!

Paul Menage wrote:
> But "namespace" has well-established historical semantics too - a way
> of changing the mappings of local names to global objects. This
> doesn't describe things liek resource controllers, cpusets, resource
> monitoring, etc.
>
> Trying to extend the well-known term namespace to refer to things that
> aren't namespaces isn't a useful approach, IMO.
>
> Paul
>   

But "namespace" has well-established historical semantics too - a way
of changing the mappings of local * to global objects. This
accurately describes things liek resource controllers, cpusets, resource
monitoring, etc.

Trying to extend the well-known term namespace to refer to things that
are semantically equivalent namespaces is a useful approach, IMHO.

Sam.

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