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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 03:46:58 +0600
From: Max Khon <fjoe@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