From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: avishay@gmail.com, jeff@garzik.org, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, osd-dev@open-osd.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] exofs: mkexofs
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:14:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081229121423.efde9d06.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4947CA5C.50104@panasas.com>
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:33:48 +0200
Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> wrote:
> We need a mechanism to prepare the file system (mkfs).
> I chose to implement that by means of a couple of
> mount-options. Because there is no user-mode API for committing
> OSD commands. And also, all this stuff is highly internal to
> the file system itself.
>
> - Added two mount options mkfs=0/1,format=capacity_in_meg, so mkfs/format
> can be executed by kernel code just before mount. An mkexofs utility
> can now be implemented by means of a script that mounts and unmount the
> file system with proper options.
Doing mkfs in-kernel is unusual. I don't think the above description
sufficiently helps the uninitiated understand why mkfs cannot be done
in userspace as usual. Please flesh it out a bit.
What are the dependencies for this filesystem code? I assume that it
depends on various block- and scsi-level patches? Which ones, and
what is their status, and is this code even compileable without them?
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-29 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-16 14:48 [PATCHSET 0/9] exofs (was osdfs) Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 14:48 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 14:52 ` [PATCH 1/9] exofs: osd Swiss army knife Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 14:52 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-29 20:29 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-31 15:33 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-31 19:26 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-01 14:44 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-02 16:52 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-04 8:43 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-04 20:03 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-05 9:01 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-05 9:36 ` Pavel Machek
2008-12-16 15:15 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-07 15:47 ` [osd-dev] " Benny Halevy
2009-01-13 13:55 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-13 14:43 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-13 14:52 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-13 15:09 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-13 15:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-13 15:28 ` Benny Halevy
2008-12-16 15:15 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:17 ` [PATCH 2/9] exofs: file and file_inode operations Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:17 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-29 20:34 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-31 15:36 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:21 ` [PATCH 3/9] exofs: symlink_inode and fast_symlink_inode operations Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:21 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-29 20:35 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-16 15:22 ` [PATCH 4/9] exofs: address_space_operations Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:22 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-29 20:45 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-31 15:35 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:28 ` [PATCH 5/9] exofs: dir_inode and directory operations Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:28 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-29 20:47 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-31 15:33 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:31 ` [PATCH 6/9] exofs: super_operations and file_system_type Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:31 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-17 22:23 ` Marcin Slusarz
2008-12-18 8:41 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-29 20:50 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-16 15:33 ` [PATCH 7/9] exofs: mkexofs Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:33 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-29 20:14 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-12-31 15:19 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-31 15:57 ` James Bottomley
2009-01-01 9:22 ` [osd-dev] " Benny Halevy
2009-01-01 9:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-01 14:23 ` Benny Halevy
2009-01-01 14:28 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-01 18:12 ` Jörn Engel
2009-01-01 18:12 ` Jörn Engel
2009-01-01 23:26 ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-01-02 7:14 ` Benny Halevy
2009-01-04 15:20 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-04 15:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-01-12 18:12 ` James Bottomley
2009-01-12 19:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-12 19:56 ` James Bottomley
2009-01-12 19:56 ` James Bottomley
2009-01-12 20:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-12 23:25 ` James Bottomley
2009-01-13 13:03 ` [osd-dev] " Benny Halevy
2009-01-13 13:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-13 13:32 ` Benny Halevy
2009-01-13 13:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-13 14:03 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-13 14:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-13 16:14 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-13 17:21 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-21 18:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-21 18:44 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-12 22:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-06 8:40 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-12-31 19:25 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-01 13:33 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-02 22:46 ` James Bottomley
2009-01-04 8:59 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:36 ` [PATCH 8/9] exofs: Documentation Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:36 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-18 7:47 ` Pavel Machek
2008-12-18 8:32 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:38 ` [PATCH 9/9] fs: Add exofs to Kernel build Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:38 ` Boaz Harrosh
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