Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 18 Sep 2001 11:27:27 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.10-pre11 |
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On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Alexander Viro wrote: > > It can be modified so that combination with lazy-bdev and pipefs-like tree > would work. And yes, most of the ugliness would just go away.
That's the part I like about the page-cache bdev patch. It has a lot of fairly ugly warts, but all of them seem to be really fixable with _other_ cleanups, at which point only the good parts remain.
I agree that the timing may leave something to be desired. But we had the discussion about fixing pagecache-bdev consistency wrt the regular buffer cache filesystem accesses a week or so ago, and the fact is that nobody really seems to have started working on it - because everybody felt that you have to get everything done at once.
I don't have that feeling. I'm happy with having partial merge with ugly warts, if it means that you can get to the final stage _without_ having to have all the problems fixed at one time.
So now we have two _smaller_ merges that will fix two other issues, and remove all the horridness from the original merge.
Linus
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