>>>>> Badari Pulavarty (BP) writes: BP> In order to do the correct accounting, we need to mark a page BP> to indicate if we reserved a block or not. One way to do this, BP> to use page->private to indicate this. But then, all the generic BP> routines will fail - since they assume that page->private represents BP> bufferheads. So we need a better way to do this.
you can introduce one more bit to page->flags BP> 3) We need add hooks into filesystem specific calls from these BP> generic routines to handle "journaling mode" requirements BP> (for ext3 and may be others). nobody uses journaling mode except ext3 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
