linux-ext4 - Re: booked-page-flag.patch

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Date:	Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:03:08 -0500
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Alex Tomas <alex@...sterfs.com>, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>,
	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: booked-page-flag.patch

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 03:23:52PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > one more question: how much of it you want in VFS?
> 
> As much as possible, really.  It's probably too late for XFS to reuse any
> new infrastructure, but if the infrastructure is well-designed it _should_
> be possible to us it in new filesytems, and to convert ext2.

Actually, in a hallway conversation with David Chinner at the Linux
filesystem/storage workshop this week, it sounded like he was willing
to at least consider changing XFS to use a VFS-based infrastructure.
So when we put together a proposal for how to do this in the XFS
layer, I would suggest cc'ing the linux-fsdevel list.

Regards,

						- Ted
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