Re: [PATCH 00/10] AXFS: Advanced XIP filesystem

Nick Piggin
2008-08-21T10:44:17Z

On Thursday 21 August 2008 20:25, Carsten Otte wrote:
> Jared Hulbert wrote:
> > I'd like to get a first round of review on my AXFS filesystem.
>
> I like the general approach of it. It's much more flexible than the
> ext2 extension I've done, and the possibility to select XIP vs.
> compression per page is really really neat. I can imagine that people
> will prefer this over the ext2 implementation on s390. It is unclear
> to me how the "secondary block device" thing is supposed to work.
> Could you elaborate a bit on that?

Agreed. I haven't had a good look through it yet, but at a glance it
looks pretty neat. The VM side of things looks pretty reasonable
(I fear XIP faulting might have another race or two, but that's a
core mm issue rather than filesystem specific).