From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: nico@cam.org (Nicolas Pitre), jgg@ualberta.ca (Jason Gunthorpe),
bjorn.wesen@axis.com (Bjorn Wesen),
jffs-dev@axis.com, mtd@infradead.org
Subject: Re: garbage collect
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:05:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8096.963572734@cygnus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1397tM-0004tu-00@the-village.bc.nu>
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk said:
> > MTD devices are not even vaguely related to block devices, and don't
> > go anywhere near the buffer cache.
> The interesting question is should they. Withouth them going via the
> block layer you wont be able to mirror them or potentially run a
> loopback fs over them soon
I had a chat with sct about this. For mirroring the answer is definitely
"Do it in the VFS".
Loopback I still maintain should be done via nbd.
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[not found] <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000628091427.16453B-100000@wakko.deltatee.com>
2000-06-28 16:05 ` garbage collect David Woodhouse
2000-06-28 16:34 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2000-06-28 16:44 ` David Woodhouse
2000-06-28 18:20 ` Nicolas Pitre
2000-06-28 18:54 ` David Woodhouse
2000-06-28 19:33 ` Nicolas Pitre
2000-06-29 11:39 ` David Woodhouse
2000-06-29 15:06 ` mtdblock interface Nicolas Pitre
2000-07-03 15:12 ` garbage collect Alan Cox
2000-07-03 16:09 ` David Woodhouse
2000-07-14 11:05 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
[not found] <394F7351.BC878E0D@auriga.ru>
2000-06-20 14:16 ` dwmw2
2000-06-21 8:06 ` Nick Ivanter
2000-06-23 9:39 ` David Woodhouse
2000-06-23 9:49 ` Nick Ivanter
[not found] ` <394F88B3.1C046375@matrox.com>
2000-06-21 8:37 ` Nick Ivanter
2000-06-21 8:43 ` Nick Ivanter
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