On Mon, Aug 31 2009, Theodore Tso wrote: > At the risk of asking a stupid question, what *is* range_cyclic and > what is it trying to do? I've been looking at the code and am I'm > getting myself very confused about what the code is trying to do and > what was its original intent. Range cyclic means that the current writeback in ->writepages() should start where it left off the last time, non-range cyclic starts off at ->range_start. ->writepages() can use mapping->writeback_index to store such information. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
