From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GFS2 Filesystem [0/16]
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:35:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060224213553.GA8817@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1140792511.6400.707.camel@quoit.chygwyn.com>
> b) The .gfs2_admin directory exposes the internal files that GFS uses
> to store various bits of file system related information. This means
> that we've been able to remove virtually all the ioctl() calls from
> GFS2. There is one ioctl() call left which relates to
> getting/setting GFS2 specific flags on files. The various GFS2 tools
> will be updated in due course to use this new interface.
Without even looking at the code a strong NACK here. This is polluting
the namespace which is not acceptable. Please implement a second
filesystem type gfsmeta to do this kind of admin work. Search for ext2meta
which did something similar. Or use a completely different approach,
I'd need to look at the actual functionality provided to give a better
advice, but currently I'm lacking the time for that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-24 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-24 14:48 GFS2 Filesystem [0/16] Steven Whitehouse
2006-02-24 21:35 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-02-27 9:03 ` Steven Whitehouse
2006-02-28 17:18 ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-02 10:12 ` Steven Whitehouse
2006-03-02 10:36 ` Al Viro
2006-02-24 21:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-24 23:52 ` Andrew Morton
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