Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: [CFT] Unbork fs.h + per-fs supers | Date | Sat, 5 Jan 2002 12:08:55 +0100 |
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On January 5, 2002 10:54 am, Alexander Viro wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > Adding VFS support for per-fs superblock size was dead simple compared to > > doing the inodes because superblocks are few enough that no slab cache is > > needed, and also because of cleanup Al had already done. > > *Stop*. > > First of all, exporting size of superblock is wrong, since the entire > ->read_super() mechanism is going to be replaced with ->get_super(type, ...) > (get_sb_...() becoming commonly used instances of the method). Moreover, > freeing superblock is very likely to become a method (for quite a few > reasons). > > Please, don't turn fs type into a bloody mess. It's bad enough as it > is; at least don't add the stuff that will go away anyway.
How would you suggest it be done?
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