Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 27 Nov 2001 18:55:09 -0700 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: Block I/O Enchancements, 2.5.1-pre2 |
| |
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 08:45:24PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > > 1. The changes made to submit_bh indicate I can now send long > > chains of variable block size requests to the I/O layer similiar > > to the capability of Windows 2000 and NetWare I/O subsystems. > > I don't want to speak for either Jens or Linus, but from what Jens was > telling me months ago, and from my reading of Jens' earlier patches, > this seems to indeed be the case. I've been looking forward to sending > non-block-sized I/Os to and from a new filesystem I'm working on. > > > > 3. In theory, I should be able to support page cache capability > > for NWFS and possibly NTFS in Linux the way these wierd non-Unix > > OS's work. > > If you are hacking on NTFS please make sure to base changes on > "ntfs-driver-tng" in the "linux-ntfs" sourceforge cvs. It is now, as of > the past week, completely modern to 2.4 vfs standards, and should > support all read-only features except attribute lists.
I have a version that supports everything, including the journal, and does not "barf" on writes. Unfortunately it's written in "merkey code style" which is ThoseF_ckingLongAssNamesForEveryDamnFunction() I was trained to write at Novell. Merging it into the sourceforge version will be nasty. I have a few other projects and code I am tardy in sending to Brazil :-). I think just letting Anton review some of it may be a better approach. NWFS is first up and needs to get finished and in so if I get hit by a truck or killed by a deranged Novell employee who has been recently laid off, someone can take maintain it.
:-)
Jeff
> > Regards, > > Jeff
> > > -- > Jeff Garzik | Only so many songs can be sung > Building 1024 | with two lips, two lungs, and one tongue. > MandrakeSoft | - nomeansno - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |