Re: regarding NFS

Trond Myklebust
2002-04-19T13:46:15Z

On Friday 19. April 2002 04:26, Jehanzeb Hameed wrote:
> > No. inode->i_mapping is initialized by the VFS, not the NFS client
> > filesystem. (see linux/fs/inode.c:clean_inode())
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Trond
>
> but then why does RAMFS assign it..??

I didn't do RAMFS, so I have no idea. Perhaps they figured that the effect of
the extra indirection was not too performance critical?

Cheers,
Trond