From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: NFS "dev_t" issues..
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 18:49:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C324B21.B5620DE6@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201011524440.957-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> > What do you think about the attached simple patch, making the cookie
> > size more explicit?
>
> Well, I suspect that we actually should also make the format explicit, and
> basically use the same translation that I did for the NFS filehandle. That
> way it's still just a cookie, but it's a cookie with (a) explicit size and
> (b) meaning that won't change over different kernel revisions.
true, each filesystem needs to figure out how to make sure their on-disk
format doesn't change across kernel revisions... Storing the raw i_rdev
onto disk definitely silly but it appears to be an issue some
filesystems will have to deal with. I'm leaving reiserfs alone so they
can make a policy decision...
--
Jeff Garzik | Only so many songs can be sung
Building 1024 | with two lips, two lungs, and one tongue.
MandrakeSoft | - nomeansno
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-01 23:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-01 22:15 NFS "dev_t" issues Linus Torvalds
2002-01-01 22:38 ` [PATCH] " Jeff Garzik
2002-01-01 22:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-01 22:57 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-01 23:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-01 23:04 ` [PATCH] " Jeff Garzik
2002-01-01 23:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-01 23:49 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-01-02 5:45 ` Greg KH
2002-01-02 16:05 ` [PATCH] Make 2.5.2-pre6 usable Martin Dalecki
2002-01-03 15:11 ` [PATCH] usabe2-2.5.2-pre6 Martin Dalecki
2002-01-07 16:50 ` NFS "dev_t" issues Trond Myklebust
2002-01-08 9:29 ` PATCH 2.5.2-pre9 scsi cleanup Martin Dalecki
2002-01-09 4:05 ` GOTO Masanori
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-02 19:34 [PATCH] Re: NFS "dev_t" issues Andries.Brouwer
2002-01-03 1:28 Andries.Brouwer
2002-01-03 15:23 ` Alessandro Suardi
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