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I don't think systemd is moving into this territory just for fun. I seem to recall it's because now the kernel is moving towards unified cgroups-trees if system

by ris 12y ago

I don't think systemd is moving into this territory just for fun. I seem to recall it's because now the kernel is moving towards unified cgroups-trees if systemd wants to be able to use cgroups it more or less has to be "in charge" of them at the root, meaning it's going to have to take care of this sort of functionality.

jacquesm 12y ago
Linux should simply adopt jails and get it over with rather than to get stuck in NIH territory.
- ris 12y ago
  Right. They should "port" a feature that's intricately linked with the internal workings of a kernel over from another completely alien kernel.
  - jacquesm 12y ago
    Nobody said it would be easy.
    - ris 12y ago
      You... more or less implied it
- dezgeg 12y ago
  Cgroups are not a virtualization / containerization feature like jails, their use cases are entirely different.
digi_owl 12y ago
Last i read on LWN the cgroups kernel dev was backing away from the idea of having a singular cgroups management daemon. And no, its not just for fun. RH is betting big on competing with Amazon and MS on cloud services. It would not surprise me if they are trying to get old RHEL server customers to move their servers onto the RH cloud with the switch to RHEL7.
- sciurus 12y ago
  What Red Hat cloud?
  - digi_owl 12y ago
    http://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing http://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing
    - sciurus 12y ago
      That doesn't answer the question. To clarify, what I meant was that Red Hat doesn't run a public IaaS cloud to which people can "move their servers".