Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266505AbUIISWo (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Sep 2004 14:22:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266555AbUIISWo (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Sep 2004 14:22:44 -0400 Received: from imladris.demon.co.uk ([193.237.130.41]:47112 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266505AbUIIR5P (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Sep 2004 13:57:15 -0400 Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 18:57:02 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel , Mingming Cao , Badari Pulavarty , Ram Pai Subject: Re: [Patch 2/6]: ext3 reservations: Renumber the ext3 reservations ioctls Message-ID: <20040909185702.A13111@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel , Mingming Cao , Badari Pulavarty , Ram Pai References: <200409071302.i87D2ROd030909@sisko.scot.redhat.com> <20040907235327.A21397@infradead.org> <1094636497.1985.20.camel@sisko.scot.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <1094636497.1985.20.camel@sisko.scot.redhat.com>; from sct@redhat.com on Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:41:38AM +0100 X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by phoenix.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 933 Lines: 23 On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:41:38AM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 23:53, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > Maybe you could reuse the XFS reservation ioctls instead of adding > > another set? Having incompatible APIs for the same thing on different > > filesystems sounds like the wrong way to go. > > I don't mind either way. But I just looked, and I think they are doing > different things. If I'm reading the XFS bits right, the XFS ioctls > actively reserve/free disk space; but the ext3 ones do nothing except > set/query the size of the per-inode sliding reservation window. > > So sounds like they are best kept separate for now. makes sense. - 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/