Re: [PATCH][RFC] inode-u.nfs_i allocated separately

2001-06-28 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Thursday 28 June 2001 07:39, Alexander Viro wrote: BTW, cost of extra dereferncing is trivial - when we access ext2-specific part of inode we usually a) do it more than once in a given function b) access a lot of stuff outside of struct inode. It's not the only cost: - The

Re: [PATCH][RFC] inode-u.nfs_i allocated separately

2001-06-28 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Thursday 28 June 2001 03:48, Alexander Viro wrote: On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: Advantages: no extra memory use, no indirection, no memory allocation overhead. An advantage you overlooked: clean up fs.h so it doesn't have to include every filesystem in the known

DAFS SDK

2001-06-28 Thread Peter J. Braam
Hi, I have made available RPM packages of the DAFS sdk v 0.8. You can find them at: ftp://ftp.clusterfs.com/pub/lustre/RPMS I made a few patches, some to compile cleanly and others to provide a header file structure that is usable in both user and kernel mode. I have attached the patch -

[ANNOUNCE] 2.4.5 ac17 - ext3 0.0.8 kernel rpms

2001-06-28 Thread Peter J. Braam
Hi, I built 2.4.5 kernel rpms with the 0.0.8 ext3 code. The Linux base is 2.4.5-ac17. I have been running this happily. Please use this at your own risk - it contains experimental file system code! You can find the packages at: ftp://ftp.clusterfs.com/pub/ext3 Enjoy! - Peter - - To