Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three

Sam Ravnborg
2007-05-15T18:36:37Z

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:19:20PM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> [ I have put everyone that gave comments to the last patch on Cc:. Hope
> that doesn't offend anyone. ]
>
>
> Add LogFS, a scalable flash filesystem.

Have you run sparse on this code?
I do not recall if you have written something about it.
I do not see any obvious things sparse would catch (just browsing quickly)
but it's always a good thing to do.

+++ linux-2.6.21logfs/fs/logfs/progs/fsck.c 2007-05-15 00:54:22.000000000 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,332 @@
+/*
+ * fs/logfs/prog/fsck.c - filesystem check
+ *
+ * As should be obvious for Linux kernel code, license is GPLv2
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2005-2007 Joern Engel
+ *
+ * In principle this could get moved to userspace. However it might still
+ * make some sense to keep it in the kernel. It is a pure checker and will
+ * only report problems, not attempt to repair them.
+ */
+#include "../logfs.h"
+
If potential userspace tools needs to include ../logfs.h then there is
something that ought to be moved to include/linux/logfs.h instead.

Sam