> I think there are some hints that are hard for the filesystem to know > itself, never mind pass down, so it'd be good to remove them to reduce > the complexity. Contrariwise, there are some hints I think the filesystem > could pass down that aren't in the spec today, such as the flags from > madvise (random access vs sequential access) and whether the access is > for fs metadata or application data. Maybe I'm getting cynical with age but I'd put a beer on it being the case that implementations ignore the fs provided hints within a few years of it becoming regularly used 8) Alan -- 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
