Re: Questions about the buffer+page cache in 2.4.0

2000-07-31 Thread Daniel Phillips
Chris Mason wrote: > > On 7/30/00, 7:14:16 AM, Daniel Phillips > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Re: Questions about > the buffer+page cache in 2.4.0: > > > After digging a little deeper I can see that using the read actor > > won't work because the read actor doesn't take the inode, or > >

Re: Questions about the buffer+page cache in 2.4.0

2000-07-31 Thread Chris Mason
On 7/30/00, 7:14:16 AM, Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Re: Questions about the buffer+page cache in 2.4.0: > Daniel Phillips wrote: > > There are two obvious ways to do filesystem-specific special handling of the > > tail block: (1) in the 'read actor' that does the act

Re: module counts in kern_mount()

2000-07-31 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Andi Kleen wrote: > I'm not sure I follow, but shouldn't mounting increase the fs module count? > How else would you do module count management for file systems ? I think I understand what Alexander is saying - it is ok to not increment the module count on kern_mount becaus

Re: Mirroring the list archives

2000-07-31 Thread Daniel Phillips
"Bill Rugolsky Jr." wrote: > In an effort to document some of the changes that have gone into 2.4 > (particularly the VFS/MM changes), I'd like to mirror the entire > linux-fsdevel, linux-mm, and linux-kernel archives going back at least > to the start of 2.3.x. Speaking of documenting, I saw rec