Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux/Pro -- clusters | Date | Mon, 10 Dec 2001 20:34:24 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> And it means we can get proper refcounting. Which as the maintainer of > two block drivers that support dynamic volume create/destroy is remarkably > good news. > > You say this as if that would be a difference between the two > approaches. I don't think it is.
Its easier to make sure its correct when we have a single structure not a pile of arrays. Object lifetime becomes explicit, and we don't have to worry about re-use races since a new instance of that major,minor will have a different object attached to the one in use that is about to be refcounted into oblivion by currently active requests - 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/
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