linux-ext4 - Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] [RFC] jbd2: Add buffer triggers

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Message-ID: <20081007010429.GF26632@mail.oracle.com>
Date:	Mon, 6 Oct 2008 18:04:29 -0700
From:	Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@...cle.com>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] [RFC] jbd2: Add buffer triggers

On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 07:32:48PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> pieces work.  Andrew Morton is right; Stephen Tweedie wrote some
> *very* clever code

	sct is very good at doing that, and even better at going off
afterwards :-)

> it all works.  So I suspect one of is going to have take a deep dive
> into the code, grok how the trifecta of b_committed_data,
> b_frozen_data, and b_data interact, and which functions make what
> assumptions, and then write up a lot of explanatory documentation....
> 
> Unfortunately, I'm not sure I'm going to have time for at least the
> next couple of weeks.  Do you think you could take a crack at it?

	I think I just did some of it in the previous email, so I
suppose I should do some more.  Let me see if I can squeeze it in.

Joel

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