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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Organization: Dept. of Physics, University of Oslo
To: "Jehanzeb Hameed" <u990056@giki.edu.pk>
Subject: Re: regarding NFS
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:46:03 +0200
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On Friday 19. April 2002 04:26, Jehanzeb Hameed wrote:
> > No. inode->i_mapping is initialized by the VFS, not the NFS client
> > filesystem. (see linux/fs/inode.c:clean_inode())
> >
> > Cheers,
> >   Trond
>
> but then why does RAMFS assign it..??

I didn't do RAMFS, so I have no idea. Perhaps they figured that the effect of 
the extra indirection was not too performance critical?

Cheers,
  Trond
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