linux-ext4 - Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] jbd2: Create proc entry with bdevname+i

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Date:	Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:10:42 -0700
From:	Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@...cle.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....EDU>, Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@...e.com>,
	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com
Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] jbd2: Create proc entry with
	bdevname+i_ino.

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 12:06:35PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 05:03:06AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 01:40:03AM -0700, Mark Fasheh wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 04:31:14PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> > > > jbd2 currently creates statistics files for each loaded journal in
> > > > /proc/fs/jbd2/<bdevname>.  ocfs2 loads multiple journals when recovering
> > > > other nodes, and the multiple journals on a given bdev collide in the
> > > > proc namespace.
> > > 
> > > Did this patch ever get reviewied? We'd really like it in so that Ocfs2 can
> > > use JBD2...
> > 
> > Thanks for pinging me; it fell through the cracks.  I'll make sure it
> > gets put into the queue for merging at the next merge window....
> 
> Could you please do it the proper way as describe in my reply to the
> thread?

Christoph,
	Not sure what you mean here.  Do you mean switching over
wholesale without the JBD compat config option?  We're currently
tracking a spinlock deadlock in JBD2, so I don't know if we're ready for
that.
	If you don't get this, I'll try to track you down tomorrow.

Joel

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