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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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dwmw2




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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-07-14 11:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [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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