Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three

Jörn Engel
2007-05-15T19:23:56Z

On Tue, 15 May 2007 15:07:05 -0400, John Stoffel wrote:
>
> I've been semi watching this, and the only comment I really can give
> is that I hate the name. To me, logfs implies a filesystem for
> logging purposes, not for Flash hardware with wear leveling issues to
> be taken into account.

Yeah, well, ...

Two years ago when I started all this, I was looking for a good name.
All I could come up with sounded stupid, so I picked "LogFS" as a code
name. As soon as I find a better name, the code name should get
replaced.

By now I still don't have anything better. All alternatives that were
proposed are just as bad - with the added disadvantage of being new and
not established yet. My hope of ever finding a better name is nearly
zero.

> Also, having scanned through the code, I find the name "cookie" using
> in logfs_inode(), logfs_iput(), logfs_iget() to be badly named. It
> should really be something like *cached_inode, which would seem to
> give more natural semantics of
>
> if (cached_inode)
> do_cached_inode_ops(...)
> else
> do_inode_ops(...)

Half-agreed. For callers, the name "cookie" makes sense. It is a
transparent thing they should not tough and hand back unchanged. For
logfs_iget() and logfs_iput() something like "is_cached" would be
better.

Will change.

Jörn

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