Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Dec 2001 09:10:24 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] direct IO breaks root filesystem |
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On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, GOTO Masanori wrote: > > > > "generic_direct_IO()" should just get the device from "bh->b_dev (which is > > filled in correctly by "get_block()". > > Oh, that's right, the patch becomes more simple (and works well). > Is this patch OK?
This looks fine to me. At some point we _may_ end up with filesystems that understand about multiple devices, so it's possible in theory that "get_block()" might return different devices for different blocks, but that does not happen currently, and I'm not really sure it ever will.
Marcelo, I do believe this should go into 2.4.x too..
Linus
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