linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3

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Message-ID: <20080414090801.GC15541@infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:08:02 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@...e.fr>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>, hch@...radead.org,
	me@...copeland.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 01:44:45AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> By "cost" I refer to extra developer time spent on maintaining the
> filesystem.  The most recent example is the write_begin/write_end changes
> which took a lot of Nick's time and rather a lot of mine also.

Which are only an extra cost for complex filesystem.  Trivial block
filesystems like omfs just use the generic callbacks and can be
converted in a simple sweep.

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