Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: GFS2 Filesystem [0/16] | From | Steven Whitehouse <> | Date | Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:03:04 +0000 |
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Hi,
On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 21:35 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > b) The .gfs2_admin directory exposes the internal files that GFS uses > > to store various bits of file system related information. This means > > that we've been able to remove virtually all the ioctl() calls from > > GFS2. There is one ioctl() call left which relates to > > getting/setting GFS2 specific flags on files. The various GFS2 tools > > will be updated in due course to use this new interface. > > Without even looking at the code a strong NACK here. This is polluting > the namespace which is not acceptable. Please implement a second > filesystem type gfsmeta to do this kind of admin work. Search for ext2meta > which did something similar. Or use a completely different approach, > I'd need to look at the actual functionality provided to give a better > advice, but currently I'm lacking the time for that. > Of all the comments we've received so far, this one raises the most issues for us. Let me think about this one for a day or two and I'll get back to you. Ideally we'd like to do it the way you propose, but I need to check that it doesn't raise any other problems before I commit to actually doing it,
Steve.
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