Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Jun 1999 15:45:11 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] pagecache-2.3.9-H3, bmap & ext2fs cleanup patch |
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On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Andrea Arcangeli 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
what is exactly the difficulty in doing so? Apart from some slight MD-related inconvenience and some single-major assumption in the 'block size verification loop' (which is nonfunctional), ll_rw_block() seems to be fully capable of handling multiple-device requests, mostly because make_request() handles it already. Am i overlooking something?
-- mingo
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