David Teigland wrote: > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 09:45:24AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > >>* Why are you using bufferheads extensively in a new filesystem? > > > bh's are used for metadata, the log, and journaled data which need to be > written at the block granularity, not page. > In a scsi tree http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-block-2.6.git;a=summary there is a function, bio_map_kern(), in fs.c that maps a buffer into a bio. It does not have to be page granularity. Can something like that be used in these places? -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
