From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>, Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 12/16] fix race between writeback and unlink
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 18:04:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020604180416.E9111@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CFD25A2.FCC7F66A@zip.com.au> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206041428080.983-100000@home.transmeta.com>
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 02:37:26PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> That's a good start, but before even egtting that far there is some need
> for a way to get a picture of the FS layout in a reasonably fs-independent
> way.
Al Viro actually came up with a beautiful mechanism for it: present
the filesystem's metadata as a filesystem itself. Blocks within a
particular inode can then be viewed with cat, and suggested replacements
can be made via echo. Such a best could be called ext2metafs and work
cooperatively with the existing filesystem code. It's quite an elegant
design that has utility beyond the simple case of defragmenting.
> Add a nice graphical front-end, and you can make it a useful screen-saver.
Heh, that would be excellent.
-ben
--
"You will be reincarnated as a toad; and you will be much happier."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-04 22:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-01 8:43 [patch 12/16] fix race between writeback and unlink Andrew Morton
2002-06-01 16:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-01 19:19 ` Andrew Morton
2002-06-01 20:04 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-06-01 22:25 ` Andrew Morton
2002-06-03 4:27 ` [RFC] iput() cleanup (was Re: [patch 12/16] fix race between writeback and unlink) Linus Torvalds
2002-06-03 16:26 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-06-03 16:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-03 19:09 ` Chris Mason
2002-06-03 19:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-03 19:49 ` Chris Mason
2002-06-03 19:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-03 22:10 ` [patch 12/16] fix race between writeback and unlink Chris Mason
2002-06-03 22:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-03 22:30 ` Andrew Morton
2002-06-04 18:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-04 20:15 ` Andrew Morton
2002-06-04 20:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-04 20:40 ` Andrew Morton
2002-06-04 21:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-04 22:04 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2002-06-04 22:08 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-07 20:38 ` Riley Williams
2002-06-04 22:05 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2002-06-04 22:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-03 22:36 ` Chris Mason
2002-06-03 22:47 ` Andrew Morton
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