Re: [RFC] basic delayed allocation in VFS

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On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:51:56AM +0400, Alex Tomas wrote:
> >Secondly, apart from delalloc, XFS cannot use the generic code paths
> >for writeback because unwritten extent conversion also requires
> >custom I/O completion handlers. Given that __mpage_writepage() only
> >calls ->writepage when it is confused, XFS simply cannot use this
> >API.
> 
> this doesn't mean fs/mpage.c should go, right?

mpage.c read side is fine for every block based filesystem I know.
mpage.c write side is fine for every simple (non-delalloc, non-unwritten
extent, etc) filesystem.  So it surely shouldn't go.

> I didn't say "generic", see Subject: :)

then it shouldn't be in generic code.

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