linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] vfs: Introduce on-demand filesystem initialisation

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Date:	Mon, 2 Jun 2008 14:38:37 +0100
From:	"Tom Spink" <tspink@...il.com>
To:	"Al Viro" <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] vfs: Introduce on-demand filesystem initialisation

2008/6/1 Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>:
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 03:51:54PM +0100, Tom Spink wrote:
>
>
> Occam's Razor...
>
> You've just serialized ->kill_sb() for given fs type (and made sure that
> if one gets stuck, _everything_ gets stuck).  Moreover, you've serialized
> sget() against the same thing (i.e. pretty much each ->get_sb()).
>
> All of that (and a couple of new methods) is done for something that just
> plain does not belong to VFS.  It's trivially doable in filesystem *and*
> it's about the objects with lifetimes that make sense only for filesystem
> itself.

Okay!  Thanks for reviewing, anyway. :-)

-- 
Tom Spink
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