From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/12] FS-Cache: Generic filesystem caching facility Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:25:04 -0800 Message-ID: <20051115112504.4b645a86.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20051114150347.1188499e.akpm@osdl.org> <11717.1132077542@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, dhowells@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-cachefs@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, nfsv4@linux-nfs.org Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:59327 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965011AbVKOTZf (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:25:35 -0500 To: David Howells In-Reply-To: <11717.1132077542@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org David Howells wrote: > > What I'm trying to do is actually fairly simple in concept: > > (1) Have a metadata inode (imeta) that covers the block device. > Can you remind me again why it requires a blockdev rather than a regular file? coz people are just going to go and use a loopback mount to get their blockdev, which is a bit sad.