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Message-ID: <20070515191926.GB1220@lazybastard.org>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 21:19:26 +0200
From: Jörn Engel <joern@...ybastard.org>
To: John Stoffel <john@...ffel.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, akpm@...l.org,
Albert Cahalan <acahalan@...il.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@...eria.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three
On Tue, 15 May 2007 15:07:05 -0400, John Stoffel wrote:
>
> I've been semi watching this, and the only comment I really can give
> is that I hate the name. To me, logfs implies a filesystem for
> logging purposes, not for Flash hardware with wear leveling issues to
> be taken into account.
Yeah, well, ...
Two years ago when I started all this, I was looking for a good name.
All I could come up with sounded stupid, so I picked "LogFS" as a code
name. As soon as I find a better name, the code name should get
replaced.
By now I still don't have anything better. All alternatives that were
proposed are just as bad - with the added disadvantage of being new and
not established yet. My hope of ever finding a better name is nearly
zero.
> Also, having scanned through the code, I find the name "cookie" using
> in logfs_inode(), logfs_iput(), logfs_iget() to be badly named. It
> should really be something like *cached_inode, which would seem to
> give more natural semantics of
>
> if (cached_inode)
> do_cached_inode_ops(...)
> else
> do_inode_ops(...)
Half-agreed. For callers, the name "cookie" makes sense. It is a
transparent thing they should not tough and hand back unchanged. For
logfs_iget() and logfs_iput() something like "is_cached" would be
better.
Will change.
Jörn
--
Linux [...] existed just for discussion between people who wanted
to show off how geeky they were.
-- Rob Enderle
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