Re: AZFS file system proposal

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 10:46:50AM +0200, Maxim Shchetynin wrote:
> +config AZ_FS
> +	tristate "AZFS filesystem support"
> +	help
> +	  Non-buffered filesystem for block devices with a gendisk and
> +	  with direct_access() method in gendisk->fops.
> +	  AZFS does not buffer outgoing traffic and is doing no read ahead.
> +	  It supports mount options (given with -o) bs=x,uid=x,gid=x.
> +	  If block-size (bs) is not specified AZFS uses block-size used
> +	  by block device. Though mmap() method is available only if
> +	  block-size equals to or is greater than system page size.

This is a terrible description.  I can't even suggest better wording
because I don't understand it.  The correct wording would not mention
gendisks, fops or direct_access().  It would tell the user what they
might use it for.

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