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Message-ID: <10126.1190416295@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:11:35 +0100
From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
Cc: dhowells@...hat.com, viro@....linux.org.uk, hch@...radead.org,
sds@...ho.nsa.gov, casey@...aufler-ca.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, selinux@...ho.nsa.gov,
linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/22] CacheFiles: Add a hook to write a single page of data to an inode
Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com> wrote:
> So why do you need a new address space operation? AFAICS the generic
> implementation will work for pretty much everyone who supports the
> existing prepare_write()/commit_write().
Because Christoph decreed that I wasn't allowed to call prepare_write() and
commit_write() directly. It's possible that the method should be in the
inode_operations rather than on the address space.
> Furthermore, you don't appear to supply any alternative "optimised"
> implementations...
Optimised in what fashion?
David
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