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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] To virtualise cpu/fs/auth-servers, or not?
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:33:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f328a58b35da7672cd4cf698db974c9d@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14ec7b180904161604s1588b5b8k91c5740aefd18f7@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu Apr 16 19:08:23 EDT 2009, mirtchovski@gmail.com wrote:
> i still like to think of private namespaces as the ultimate
> virtualizer: your ns is your "virtual environment", the file server
> you're mounting is the  "hypervisor". i don't care that it doesn't
> simulate actual hardware like xen/qemu. after all, each has layers and
> layers of abstractions to get you from the hardware to a usable
> environment.

it breaks down when you realize that some resources (processes, memory)
are not part of a namespace.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-17  2:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-16 20:06 Jonas Amoson
2009-04-16 20:30 ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-16 23:04   ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-04-17  2:33     ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-04-17  2:49       ` andrey mirtchovski

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