Re: ext3 for 2.4

2001-05-18 Thread Alexander Viro
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: Well, if you look how I did the index, it works with blocks and buffers while still staying entirely in the page cache. This was Stephen's suggestion, and it integrates reliably with Al's page-oriented code. So I'm mixing pages and blocks

Re: ext3 for 2.4

2001-05-18 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Friday 18 May 2001 11:10, Alexander Viro wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: Well, if you look how I did the index, it works with blocks and buffers while still staying entirely in the page cache. This was Stephen's suggestion, and it integrates reliably with Al's

read-only mounts

2001-05-18 Thread Bryan Henderson
I have discovered, looking at Linux 2.4.2, that the read-only status of a mount is considered in some places to be a matter of file permissions, and in others as something separate from file permissions. So in some cases, it is the responsibility of a filesystem object's -permission routine to