Mike Christie wrote: > 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 oh yeah it is in -mm too. > 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 -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
