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Date:      Wed, 3 Mar 2004 03:46:58 +0600
From:      Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>
To:        Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: My planned work on networking stack (vimage)
Message-ID:  <20040302214658.GD42471@iclub.nsu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20040302214022.GC42471@iclub.nsu.ru>
References:  <4043B6BA.B847F081@freebsd.org> <00d301c40089$8a035410$c000000a@jd2400> <4044F8E1.F10CFD37@freebsd.org> <20040302214022.GC42471@iclub.nsu.ru>

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Hello!

On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 03:40:22AM +0600, Max Khon wrote:

> > The patch set is pretty extensive and intrusive and only for 4.x.  Adding
> > locking for 5.x would be a pretty nice challenge as well and not easy to
> > get right for all cases.
> > 
> > > This is one thing that I would like to use, without patching systems. But
> > > then thats just my 'wish list' opinion of it.
> > 
> > I think is makes more sense to get something like userland BSD.
> 
> Userland BSD might need too many resources.
> Think of hosting providers who run hundreds or thousands of virtual hosts
> in a jail. Please take a look at commercial solutions like FreeVPS by H-Sphere
> or Virtuozzo by SWSoft.

I might add that having userland BSD is very useful feature.
But from my experience with UML (User Mode Linux) I can say that
it hardly can be useful for anything except development (kernel debugging,
userland development for different kernel version etc.).

/fjoe



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