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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: carsteno@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] AXFS: Advanced XIP filesystem
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:43:50 +1000
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On Thursday 21 August 2008 20:25, Carsten Otte wrote:
> Jared Hulbert wrote:
> > I'd like to get a first round of review on my AXFS filesystem.
>
> I like the general approach of it. It's much more flexible than the
> ext2 extension I've done, and the possibility to select XIP vs.
> compression per page is really really neat. I can imagine that people
> will prefer this over the ext2 implementation on s390. It is unclear
> to me how the "secondary block device" thing is supposed to work.
> Could you elaborate a bit on that?

Agreed. I haven't had a good look through it yet, but at a glance it
looks pretty neat. The VM side of things looks pretty reasonable
(I fear XIP faulting might have another race or two, but that's a
core mm issue rather than filesystem specific).
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