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From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: Tachino Nobuhiro <tachino@open.nm.fujitsu.co.jp>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	padraig@antefacto.com (Padraig Brady),
	scho1208@yahoo.com (Roy S.C. Ho),
	david@gibson.dropbear.id.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question about kernel 2.4 ramdisk
Date: 05 Dec 2001 14:51:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k7w1pyft.fsf@linux.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C0D2843.5060708@antefacto.com> <E16BLxI-0003Ic-00@the-village.bc.nu> <snaqhzhj.wl@nisaaru.dvs.cs.fujitsu.co.jp> <m3wv02oz2w.fsf@linux.local> <itbmoy6m.wl@nisaaru.dvs.cs.fujitsu.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: <itbmoy6m.wl@nisaaru.dvs.cs.fujitsu.co.jp>

Hi Tachino,

On Wed, 05 Dec 2001, Tachino Nobuhiro wrote:
>> Please! If you do the limit checking for ramfs adapt the same
>> options like shmem.c
>> i.e. size,nr_inodes,nr_blocks,mode(+uid+gid). Don't invent yet
>> another mount option set. Also give them the same semantics. Best
>> would be to use shmem_parse_options.
> 
> These options are not my invention. Ramfs in 2.4.13-ac7 already has
> them.  But I agree the original options are not easy to understand,
> so if compatibility does not matter, I am glad to change them.

But this was never integrated into the stock kernel.

>> Further thought: Wouldn't it be better to add a no_swap mount
>> option to shmem and try to merge the two? There is a lot of code
>> duplication between mm/shmem.c and fs/ramfs/inode.c.
> 
> I thought that too. but I don't know it should be done in stable
> kernel series.

But we have 2.5 now. And that's where this should be done.

Greetings
		Christoph



  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-05 13:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-04 19:01 question about kernel 2.4 ramdisk Roy S.C. Ho
2001-12-04 19:47 ` Padraig Brady
2001-12-04 20:14   ` Alan Cox
2001-12-05  7:49     ` Christoph Rohland
2001-12-05  7:56     ` Tachino Nobuhiro
2001-12-05  8:23       ` Christoph Rohland
2001-12-05  8:42         ` Tachino Nobuhiro
2001-12-05 13:51           ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
2001-12-06 16:37         ` David Gibson
2001-12-06 16:55           ` Alan Cox
2001-12-08  9:53           ` Christoph Rohland
2001-12-14  5:35             ` David Gibson
2001-12-16 15:34               ` Christoph Rohland
2001-12-17  3:49                 ` David Gibson
2001-12-17  7:55                   ` Christoph Rohland
2001-12-05  9:37   ` Roy S.C. Ho

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