Re: [-mm patch] UNION_FS must depend on SLAB

Pekka Enberg
2007-02-22T06:16:56Z

Hi Andrew,

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Problem is, it doesn't seem that we'll be merging unionfs any time soon so
> we shouldn't be adding slab infrastructure on its behalf. And I'd prefer
> not to have to carry slab changes in a filesystem tree.

I think we can merge krealloc without unionfs. I'll whoop up a new patch
as per Christoph's suggestions. I think at least XFS already has its own
realloc and there might be some other open-coded users. It's not
_changing_ the slab as much as adding new functionality that makes sense
fron a general point of view.

The ksize exports we can add later if unionfs is to be merged.

Pekka