From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: booked-page-flag.patch Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:03:08 -0500 Message-ID: <20070216150308.GB25957@thunk.org> References: <20070215004504.023a90f0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <45D495EA.3060200@redhat.com> <20070215125654.b0f18ab3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070215152352.6ddcfa92.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Alex Tomas , Eric Sandeen , "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" To: Andrew Morton Return-path: Received: from thunk.org ([69.25.196.29]:40466 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1945966AbXBPQHf (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:07:35 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070215152352.6ddcfa92.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 03:23:52PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > one more question: how much of it you want in VFS? > > As much as possible, really. It's probably too late for XFS to reuse any > new infrastructure, but if the infrastructure is well-designed it _should_ > be possible to us it in new filesytems, and to convert ext2. Actually, in a hallway conversation with David Chinner at the Linux filesystem/storage workshop this week, it sounded like he was willing to at least consider changing XFS to use a VFS-based infrastructure. So when we put together a proposal for how to do this in the XFS layer, I would suggest cc'ing the linux-fsdevel list. Regards, - Ted