Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757545AbXF3Kkw (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:40:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757261AbXF3Kkm (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:40:42 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:56954 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756935AbXF3Kkl (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:40:41 -0400 Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:40:38 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Chris Mason Cc: Nick Piggin , Neil Brown , Nick Piggin , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Memory Management List , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] add the fsblock layer Message-ID: <20070630104038.GB24123@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Chris Mason , Nick Piggin , Neil Brown , Nick Piggin , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Memory Management List , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org References: <20070624014528.GA17609@wotan.suse.de> <20070624014613.GB17609@wotan.suse.de> <18046.63436.472085.535177@notabene.brown> <467F71C6.6040204@yahoo.com.au> <20070625122906.GB12446@think.oraclecorp.com> <46807B32.6050302@yahoo.com.au> <18048.32372.40011.10896@notabene.brown> <468082FF.6090704@yahoo.com.au> <20070626122650.GL14224@think.oraclecorp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070626122650.GL14224@think.oraclecorp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.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: 667 Lines: 14 On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 08:26:50AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > Since we're testing new code, I would just leave the blkdev address > space alone. If a filesystem wants to use fsblocks, they allocate a new > inode during mount, stuff it into their private super block (or in the > generic super), and use that for everything. Basically ignoring the > block device address space completely. Exactly, same thing XFS does. - 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/