On 11/25/2010 12:47 AM, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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. > In btrfs an SB my span multiple partitions. How else can it be solved? (I know... You didn't like that from the begging ;-)) Boaz > -- 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
