Re: 2.6.13

2005-08-30 Thread Carsten Otte
Dave Jones wrote: > I think what Mr Morton is referring to is the "execute in place" file > system technology that IBM has made available on their developer website: > ftp://www6.software.ibm.com/software/developer/linux390/docu/l26bhe00.pdf > > Execute in place is a patch that allows for a file sy

Re: 2.6.13

2005-08-30 Thread Carsten Otte
Neale Ferguson wrote: > xip2 is a file system that appears as ext2 but resides in a DCSS when > running under z/VM. To execute the programs you execute straight from > the DCSS without having to move the data from the filesystem. You mmap > directly to the page(s) in the DCSS. This means that all y

Re: 2.6.13

2005-08-30 Thread Carsten Otte
place"? Is the "I" a typo? I did that patch. Since we did have trouble integrating xip2fs (people were not happy with me duplicating part of ext2 code), I did do a shiny new implementation that does'nt have a filesystem anymore: I built execute in place in the generic filemap c

Re: 2.6.13

2005-08-29 Thread Adam Thornton
On Aug 29, 2005, at 3:40 PM, Little, Chris wrote: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1853041,00.asp "Also in the cards is an implementation of "executeI in place" for a specific s/390 usage, kernel maintainer Andrew Morton told eWEEK." Did I miss something? (surely not...I'm not that busy, a

Re: 2.6.13

2005-08-29 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, Chris. I think what Mr Morton is referring to is the "execute in place" file system technology that IBM has made available on their developer website: ftp://www6.software.ibm.com/software/developer/linux390/docu/l26bhe00.pdf Execute in place is a patch that allows for a file system that hold

Re: 2.6.13

2005-08-29 Thread Neale Ferguson
xip2 is a file system that appears as ext2 but resides in a DCSS when running under z/VM. To execute the programs you execute straight from the DCSS without having to move the data from the filesystem. You mmap directly to the page(s) in the DCSS. This means that all your virtual servers *can* shar

2.6.13

2005-08-29 Thread Little, Chris
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1853041,00.asp "Also in the cards is an implementation of "executeI in place" for a specific s/390 usage, kernel maintainer Andrew Morton told eWEEK." Did I miss something? (surely not...I'm not that busy, am I?) What is "executeI in place"? Is the "I" a typ