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    SubjectRe: [patch] pagecache-2.3.9-H3, bmap & ext2fs cleanup patch
    On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:

    >(Our ll_rw_block() cannot handle multi-device requests, but we'll see if
    >we ever need them before I would fix that up).

    I just need/did that but not for a filesystem that span multiple devices,
    but more simply for writing dirty buffers to disk at once. If you remeber
    I just sent you the patch for ll_rw_block but you showed me a pseudo-code
    implementation of an helper function to handle such multi-device work
    without change ll_rw_block. I can finish the real implementation of
    course, just tell me "do that" :). Currently I am still running with a
    multi-device capable ll_rw_block because having ll_rw_block multi-device
    capable seems to me the cleaner solution and that may perform better than
    the helper function if the block-device changes every time (unlikely I
    know...).

    BTW, I think that a filesystem that span over multiple devices could make
    better choices than raid, right?

    Andrea Arcangeli


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