Re: questions on s_files and open.c/filp_open

2000-03-13 Thread Neil F. Brown
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: lots of useful stuff about my vfs.sgml . Thanks for all that. I will go through your comments and the latest source and get it more up-to-date/accurate. 7) "The one interesting usage of the field [-s_type] is in

Re: questions on s_files and open.c/filp_open

2000-03-12 Thread Alexander Viro
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Peter J. Braam wrote: Alexander Viro wrote: 6) unions in superblocks (and inodes) are nasty. Use separately-allocated private parts of either and keep pointer to them in -u.generic_sbp and -u.generic_ip, resp. It's less critical for superblocks, but for inodes

Re: questions on s_files and open.c/filp_open

2000-03-12 Thread Peter J. Braam
I think that's ok with the Coda directories, if not it's really easy to fix in userland for us. Assume it. ObCODA: do you have any sort of alignment for cached directories? It would be ideal if you could guarantee that no entry crosses 4K-boundary in caching file...