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From: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, cmm@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] Forking ext4 filesystem from ext3 filesystem
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 01:11:23 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3irl0l2is.fsf@bzzz.home.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44DB9E6C.9070808@garzik.org> (Jeff Garzik's message of "Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:00:28 -0400")

>>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes:

 >> A buffer_head is the kernel's sole abstraction of a disk block. 
 >> Filesystems use disk blocks a lot, and they need such an abstraction.

 JG> IMO Al Viro work has shown that you can do pagecache I/O without needing 
 JG> such a heavyweight system.

in delayed allocation patch for ext3 (ontop of extents) we do use
bio's for data.

thanks, Alex

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-10 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-10  1:17 [PATCH 1/5] Forking ext4 filesystem from ext3 filesystem Mingming Cao
2006-08-10  6:39 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-10 16:41   ` Mingming Cao
2006-08-10 16:48     ` Jörn Engel
2006-08-10 18:18     ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-10 20:22       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 20:33         ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-10 20:52           ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 17:44   ` Theodore Tso
2006-08-10 18:51   ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-08-10 19:23     ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-10 19:36       ` Dave Kleikamp
2006-08-10 19:54         ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-10 20:12       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 20:13     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 20:27       ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-10 21:00         ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 21:11           ` Alex Tomas [this message]
2006-08-10 22:18             ` [Ext2-devel] " Andrew Morton

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