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From: Oren Laadan <orenl-eQaUEPhvms7ENvBUuze7eA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: List of filesystems to use generic checkpoint fops
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:56:51 -0400
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Matt Helsley wrote:
> In case anyone's curious here is my list of filesystems which I think should
> have generic_file_checkpoint fops (31):

Thanks, Matt.

> 	adfs
> 	affs
> 	befs
> 	bfs
> 	btrfs
> 	cramfs
> 	ecryptfs
> 	efs
> 	fat
> 	freevxfs
> 	hfs
> 	hfsplus
> 	hpfs
> 	hppfs
> 	isofs
> 	jffs2
> 	jfs
> 	minix
> 	ntfs
> 	omfs
> 	openpromfs
> 	qnx4
> 	ramfs

I'd think that in the case of ramfs we always need to dump the contents of the
file, or the entire file system, with the checkpoint image.

> 	reiserfs
> 	romfs
> 	squashfs
> 	sysv
> 	ubifs
> 	udf
> 	ufs
> 	xfs
> 
> I also added the checkpoint operation to generic_ro_fops since it's used
> only in the set of filesystems listed above. For the curious:
> 	befs
> 	cramfs
> 	efs
> 	freevxfs
> 	isofs
> 	romfs
> 	squashfs

??

[...]

Oren.