From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chris.mason@oracle.com,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
"Bryn M. Reeves" <breeves@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] fast file mapping for loop
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:31:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080110083130.GP6258@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080109231628.GB4039@agk.fab.redhat.com>
On Wed, Jan 09 2008, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> Here's the latest version of dm-loop, for comparison.
>
> To try it out,
> ln -s dmsetup dmlosetup
> and supply similar basic parameters to losetup.
> (using dmsetup version 1.02.11 or higher)
Why oh why does dm always insist to reinvent everything? That's bad
enough in itself, but on top of that most of the extra stuff ends up
being essentially unmaintained.
If we instead improve loop, everyone wins.
Sorry to sound a bit harsh, but sometimes it doesn't hurt to think a bit
outside your own sandbox.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-10 8:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-09 8:52 [PATCH][RFC] fast file mapping for loop Jens Axboe
2008-01-09 9:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-01-09 9:43 ` Jens Axboe
2008-01-09 11:00 ` Chris Mason
2008-01-09 15:34 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-10 8:43 ` Jens Axboe
2008-01-09 23:16 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2008-01-10 8:31 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2008-01-10 8:42 ` Jens Axboe
2008-01-11 7:39 ` Mikulas Patocka
2008-01-11 7:58 ` Jens Axboe
2008-01-10 12:47 ` Chris Mason
2008-01-10 12:57 ` Jens Axboe
2008-01-10 23:01 ` Neil Brown
2008-01-11 14:21 ` Chris Mason
2008-01-10 1:42 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-10 8:34 ` Jens Axboe
2008-01-10 8:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-01-10 8:44 ` Jens Axboe
2008-01-10 8:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-01-10 9:01 ` Jens Axboe
2008-01-10 12:53 ` Chris Mason
2008-01-10 13:03 ` Jens Axboe
2008-01-10 13:46 ` Chris Mason
2008-01-10 9:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-01-10 9:49 ` Jens Axboe
2008-01-10 9:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-01-10 10:02 ` Jens Axboe
2008-01-10 10:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-01-11 1:25 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-01-11 18:17 ` Daniel Phillips
2008-01-11 18:23 ` Jens Axboe
2008-01-14 17:10 ` Chris Mason
2008-01-14 17:54 ` Jens Axboe
2008-01-15 9:25 ` Jens Axboe
2008-01-15 9:36 ` Jens Axboe
2008-01-15 10:07 ` Jens Axboe
2008-01-15 14:04 ` Chris Mason
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2008-01-09 23:53 ` Alasdair G Kergon
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