From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>,
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>,
"linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: booked-page-flag.patch
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:03:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070216150308.GB25957@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070215152352.6ddcfa92.akpm@linux-foundation.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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-16 16:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-15 8:45 booked-page-flag.patch Andrew Morton
2007-02-15 14:03 ` booked-page-flag.patch Alex Tomas
2007-02-15 17:18 ` booked-page-flag.patch Eric Sandeen
2007-02-15 17:30 ` booked-page-flag.patch Alex Tomas
2007-02-15 20:56 ` booked-page-flag.patch Andrew Morton
2007-02-15 21:07 ` booked-page-flag.patch Alex Tomas
2007-02-15 23:23 ` booked-page-flag.patch Andrew Morton
2007-02-16 7:30 ` booked-page-flag.patch Alex Tomas
2007-02-16 7:46 ` booked-page-flag.patch Andrew Morton
2007-02-16 7:56 ` booked-page-flag.patch Alex Tomas
2007-02-16 8:06 ` booked-page-flag.patch Andrew Morton
2007-02-16 12:14 ` booked-page-flag.patch Andreas Dilger
2007-02-16 16:02 ` booked-page-flag.patch Dave Kleikamp
2007-02-16 15:03 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2007-02-15 20:21 ` booked-page-flag.patch Andrew Morton
2007-02-16 12:17 ` booked-page-flag.patch Andreas Dilger
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