From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca>
Cc: Bjorn Wesen <bjorn.wesen@axis.com>, jffs-dev@axis.com, mtd@infradead.org
Subject: Re: garbage collect
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:44:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1376.962210684@cygnus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000628101404.16453C-100000@wakko.deltatee.com>
jgg@ualberta.ca said:
> Yes, that is how other block devices work? Can we somehow reuse that
> mechanism, whatever it is..
You don't want to know. The existing partitioning stuff in Linux is
absolutely disgusting, and it's likely to be replaced fairly early in 2.5
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-06-28 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000628091427.16453B-100000@wakko.deltatee.com>
2000-06-28 16:05 ` garbage collect David Woodhouse
2000-06-28 16:34 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2000-06-28 16:44 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2000-06-28 18:20 ` Nicolas Pitre
2000-06-28 18:54 ` David Woodhouse
2000-06-28 19:33 ` Nicolas Pitre
2000-06-29 11:39 ` David Woodhouse
2000-06-29 15:06 ` mtdblock interface Nicolas Pitre
2000-07-03 15:12 ` garbage collect Alan Cox
2000-07-03 16:09 ` David Woodhouse
2000-07-14 11:05 ` David Woodhouse
[not found] <394F7351.BC878E0D@auriga.ru>
2000-06-20 14:16 ` dwmw2
2000-06-21 8:06 ` Nick Ivanter
2000-06-23 9:39 ` David Woodhouse
2000-06-23 9:49 ` Nick Ivanter
[not found] ` <394F88B3.1C046375@matrox.com>
2000-06-21 8:37 ` Nick Ivanter
2000-06-21 8:43 ` Nick Ivanter
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