Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems
Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems
Posted Sep 1, 2014 16:46 UTC (Mon) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)In reply to: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems by torquay
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Sure, one of the reasons Docker exists and is so popular is to try and skin this cat, heck the reason VMs are so popular is to abstract away this software dependency management problem in a simple but heavy handed way. The problem is that no one really wants to run nested kernels to make this work, you lose a lot of information about the work to be scheduled when nesting kernels, so this is a possible way to solve the fundamental software compatibility management problem on a shared kernel.
I'm sure that as others digest this proposal and try to build systems using it they will discover corner cases which are not handled, compatibility issues, ways to simplify it so that the final result may be somewhat different but this could be a vastly useful system.