Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Mar 2000 09:13:01 -0800 (PST) | From | Chris Mason <> | Subject | Re: (reiserfs) Re: patch: reiserfs for 2.3.49 |
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On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Hi, > > On Sun, 12 Mar 2000 22:00:53 -0500 (EST), Gregory Maxwell > <greg@linuxpower.cx> said: > > > When I looked the other day (please excuse memory fuzz), there was only > > ONE small, veryfiable patch made outside of the reiserfs directory > > excluding includes, makefile, and menu garbage. > > > They removed the VFS bastardazation. :) > > Most of it. It still uses a whole bunch of fs-specific flags in the > buffer_head flags word, which was one of the things Linus objected to > last time we tried to sort out a decent IO abstraction for journaling,
That's a good point, but I did not realize Linus objected to the bits themselves. We do have 5 of our own bits that we set in the buffer head b_state, and the journal depends on them a great deal. If people have large objections to them, please bring them up now.
> but it is _much_ cleaner than the old 2.2 diffs. >
thanks, Chris
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