On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 07:34:07 -0500 Chris Mason <chris.mason@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > For btrfs there's only one bdi per SB, but for most everyone else a disk > with a bunch of partitions is going to have multiple filesystems on the > same bdi. um, please explain why that wasn't idiotic? The BDI is a representation of a backing device and it's *supposed* to provide visibility into what's happening against other partitions on the same device. Creating a BDI per SB (it didn't even occur to me to think that a filesystem was even able to do this) breaks that. -- 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