Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 05 Aug 2005 02:30:41 -0500 | From | Mike Christie <> | Subject | Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: [PATCH 00/14] GFS |
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Mike Christie wrote: > David Teigland wrote: > >>On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 09:45:24AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> >> >>>* Why are you using bufferheads extensively in a new filesystem? >> >> >>bh's are used for metadata, the log, and journaled data which need to be >>written at the block granularity, not page. >> > > > In a scsi tree > http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-block-2.6.git;a=summary
oh yeah it is in -mm too.
> there is a function, bio_map_kern(), in fs.c that maps a buffer into a > bio. It does not have to be page granularity. Can something like that be > used in these places? > > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@redhat.com > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
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