Date:Tue, 13 Jun 2000 13:10:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alexander Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Start from taking ext2, UFS and NFS out of -u. in struct inode. Yup,
separate allocation and inlined function (ext2_ino(inode)) that would
return the pointer to private part of inode. I can
Richard Gooch wrote:
Hi, Al. I'd like to explore an idea Linus suggested a while back. He
suggested using VFS inodes as the data store for devfs, rather than
keeping stuff in devfs entries. So the idea would be that the VFS
maintains the tree structure rather than devfs entries.
This
Alexander Viro writes:
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
I'd like to see something more drastic. Indeed, that union crap is by
far the worst offender and needs fixing. But there's a whole pile of
other junk that's just not needed all the time.
Richard, may I remind you that
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
I'd like to see something more drastic. Indeed, that union crap is by
far the worst offender and needs fixing. But there's a whole pile of
other junk that's just not needed all the time.
Richard, may I remind you that we are supposed to be in the
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
Yes. And all that time mounting the thing at several point was a huge,
fscking hole.
Sure. And hence RedHat wasn't going to compile it in.
Fine with RedHat, but how in hell does it solve the problem? I don't
_CARE_ for any "party line". I don't
Alexander Viro writes:
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
Yes. And all that time mounting the thing at several point was a huge,
fscking hole.
Sure. And hence RedHat wasn't going to compile it in.
Fine with RedHat, but how in hell does it solve the problem? I don't
Alexander Viro writes:
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
This is a lot closer to being feasible with all the VFS changes you've
been making, but there is one problem that really concerns me. VFS
inodes are very heavyweight. The devfs entries are very lightweight,
storing only
Alexander Viro writes:
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
So I don't really expect wholesale VFS changes right now (but, hey,
that doesn't seem to stop you getting stuff in;-). But that shouldn't
They would not be there if not for your ability to get devfs there ;-/
And took
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
Alexander Viro writes:
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
So I don't really expect wholesale VFS changes right now (but, hey,
that doesn't seem to stop you getting stuff in;-). But that shouldn't
They would not be there if not
