Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965011AbVKOTZg (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:25:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965012AbVKOTZg (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:25:36 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:59327 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965011AbVKOTZf (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:25:35 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:25:04 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: David Howells Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, dhowells@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-cachefs@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, nfsv4@linux-nfs.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/12] FS-Cache: Generic filesystem caching facility Message-Id: <20051115112504.4b645a86.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <11717.1132077542@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> References: <20051114150347.1188499e.akpm@osdl.org> <11717.1132077542@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 607 Lines: 17 David Howells wrote: > > What I'm trying to do is actually fairly simple in concept: > > (1) Have a metadata inode (imeta) that covers the block device. > Can you remind me again why it requires a blockdev rather than a regular file? coz people are just going to go and use a loopback mount to get their blockdev, which is a bit sad. - 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/