From: Jaegeuk Kim via Linux-f2fs-devel <linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
To: Daeho Jeong <daeho43@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, kernel-team@android.com,
Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH v5] f2fs: introduce device aliasing file
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 16:42:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zw1J30Fn48uYCwK7@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACOAw_yvb=jacbXVr76bSbCEcud=D1vw5rJVDO+TjZbMLYzdZQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/14, Daeho Jeong wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 10:56 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 12:26:26PM -0700, Daeho Jeong wrote:
> > > From: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@google.com>
> > >
> > > F2FS should understand how the device aliasing file works and support
> > > deleting the file after use. A device aliasing file can be created by
> > > mkfs.f2fs tool and it can map the whole device with an extrent, not
> >
> > s/extrent/extent/g
Applied with the fix.
> >
> > > using node blocks. The file space should be pinned and normally used for
> > > read-only usages.
> >
> > Is there an explanation somewhere what a 'device aliasing file' is?
>
> Plz, refer to this patch and the description there.
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs-tools.git/commit/?h=dev-test&id=8cc4e257ec20bee207bb034d5ac406e1ab31eaea
Also, I added this in the description.
---
For example,
"mkfs.f2fs -c /dev/block/test@test_alias /dev/block/main" gives
a file $root/test_alias which carves out /dev/block/test partition.
---
>
> Thank you,
>
>
> >
>
>
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From: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
To: Daeho Jeong <daeho43@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@google.com>,
kernel-team@android.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH v5] f2fs: introduce device aliasing file
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 16:42:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zw1J30Fn48uYCwK7@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACOAw_yvb=jacbXVr76bSbCEcud=D1vw5rJVDO+TjZbMLYzdZQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/14, Daeho Jeong wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 10:56 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 12:26:26PM -0700, Daeho Jeong wrote:
> > > From: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@google.com>
> > >
> > > F2FS should understand how the device aliasing file works and support
> > > deleting the file after use. A device aliasing file can be created by
> > > mkfs.f2fs tool and it can map the whole device with an extrent, not
> >
> > s/extrent/extent/g
Applied with the fix.
> >
> > > using node blocks. The file space should be pinned and normally used for
> > > read-only usages.
> >
> > Is there an explanation somewhere what a 'device aliasing file' is?
>
> Plz, refer to this patch and the description there.
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs-tools.git/commit/?h=dev-test&id=8cc4e257ec20bee207bb034d5ac406e1ab31eaea
Also, I added this in the description.
---
For example,
"mkfs.f2fs -c /dev/block/test@test_alias /dev/block/main" gives
a file $root/test_alias which carves out /dev/block/test partition.
---
>
> Thank you,
>
>
> >
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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> Linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-14 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-10 19:26 [f2fs-dev] [PATCH v5] f2fs: introduce device aliasing file Daeho Jeong
2024-10-10 19:26 ` Daeho Jeong
2024-10-12 2:40 ` [f2fs-dev] " Chao Yu via Linux-f2fs-devel
2024-10-12 2:40 ` Chao Yu
2024-10-14 5:56 ` [f2fs-dev] " Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-14 5:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-14 16:28 ` [f2fs-dev] " Daeho Jeong
2024-10-14 16:28 ` Daeho Jeong
2024-10-14 16:42 ` Jaegeuk Kim via Linux-f2fs-devel [this message]
2024-10-14 16:42 ` [f2fs-dev] " Jaegeuk Kim
2024-10-15 5:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-15 5:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-15 16:56 ` Jaegeuk Kim
2024-10-15 16:56 ` Jaegeuk Kim via Linux-f2fs-devel
2024-10-15 5:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-15 5:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
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