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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
Cc: Linux kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][CFT] (updated) ext2 directories in pagecache
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 04:13:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01051304131900.02742@starship> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105121817020.11973-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105121817020.11973-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>

On Sunday 13 May 2001 00:18, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Sat, 12 May 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > We could use the "buffer_uptodate" flag on the buffer to signal
> > that the block has been checked.  AFAIK, a new buffer will not be
> > uptodate, and once it is it will not be read from disk again... 
> > However, if a user-space process read the buffer would also mark it
> > uptodate without doing the check...  Maybe we should use a new BH_
> > pointer... Just need to factor out the ext2_check_page() code so
> > that it works on a generic memory pointer and end pointer.
>
> Or you could simply use ext2_get_page() and forget about this crap.

I tried that first.  The resulting code was not nice and worked only 
for 4K block_size, as far as I took it.

I'm not sure what advantage you see in ext2_get_page, perhaps you can 
explain.
--
Daniel

  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-13  2:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-11  7:10 [PATCH][CFT] (updated) ext2 directories in pagecache Andreas Dilger
2001-05-11  7:19 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-11 16:34   ` Andreas Dilger
2001-05-11 20:20     ` Daniel Phillips
2001-05-12 21:41       ` Andreas Dilger
2001-05-12 22:18         ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-13  2:13           ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2001-05-13  2:34         ` Daniel Phillips
2001-05-14 18:33           ` Andreas Dilger
2001-05-14 19:29             ` Daniel Phillips
2001-05-14 21:50             ` Daniel Phillips
2001-05-16  3:11               ` Daniel Phillips
2001-05-11 13:02 ` Daniel Phillips
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-05-10 20:53 Andreas Dilger
2001-05-11  1:10 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-05-10  7:21 Andreas Dilger
2001-05-13 22:15 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-05-14 20:04   ` Andreas Dilger
2001-05-14 22:18     ` Daniel Phillips
2001-05-14 22:23     ` Daniel Phillips
2001-05-06 23:16 Daniel Phillips
2001-05-09 21:22 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-05-11  1:04   ` Daniel Phillips
2001-05-03 21:10 Daniel Phillips
2001-05-03 22:59 ` Albert Cranford
     [not found] <01050303150500.00633@starship>
2001-05-03  1:43 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-04-29 20:35 Daniel Phillips
2001-05-02  3:03 ` Albert Cranford
2001-04-12 16:33 [PATCH][CFT] " Alexander Viro
2001-04-23 22:21 ` [PATCH][CFT] (updated) " Alexander Viro
2001-04-28 18:16   ` Alexander Viro

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