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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Amit Gud <amitgud@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gud@eth.net
Subject: Re: Using filesystem blocks
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 09:19:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040903091926.B2288@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c6b3ab0040902215656704680@mail.gmail.com>; from amitgud@gmail.com on Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 10:26:23AM +0530

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 10:26:23AM +0530, Amit Gud wrote:
> > 
> > > Is it wise enough to abstract away the usage of blocks for storing
> > > extended attributes?
> > 
> > No.  Some fs' will store xattr data in the inodes if it fits.
> > 
> 
> First up, why is mbcache code is written at VFS layer than being
> filesystem specific? Neccessarily to take away the coding overheads of
> maintaining block cache that any filesystem uses, even though given
> that only ext2 and ext3 uses it. It facilitates code reuse.

It is not written at the VFS level.  It's a library ontop of the buffercache
than can be reused by filesystems.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-03  8:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-02 19:29 Using filesystem blocks Amit Gud
2004-09-02 20:07 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-03  4:56   ` Amit Gud
2004-09-03  8:19     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-09-03 12:06       ` Amit Gud

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