On Tuesday 06 January 2009 04:10:42 Nick Piggin wrote: > On Tuesday 06 January 2009 03:37:33 Chris Mason wrote: > > So, long term we can have a benchmarking contest, but I've got a little > > ways to go before that is a good idea. > > That would be good. This got me motivated to rebase fsblock to current again. I finally switched it to create a private inode for the metadata linear mapping, which makes it incredibly cleaner (doesn't require the new page flag, lives much more happily beside buffer_heads etc). Another big thing I did a few months back is to add a ->data pointer to metadata fsblocks (like bh->b_data), which makes a quick fsblock conversion much more trivial (although it wouldn't support super-page blocks without further work). I'd also converted XFS to fsblock, which involved adding support for delalloc and unwritten blocks. Although that has a couple of unfinished bits, it works pretty well and helps prove fsblock working with an advanced filesystem. Given these points (particularly the first one), I'm going to try to find time in the next few months to work on fsblock with a view to submitting it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
