On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 04:55:41PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote: > Can we do direct writes from kernel space yet? If so I'll change the code to > do that so that it will work with any filesystem (which supports direct > writes). You can - see __swap_writepage() (mm/page_io.c). However, that area is about to get a lot of massage, so it would make sense to wait a bit... > (The documentation says we that bitmap files should only be used on ext2 or > ext3. Most people use bitmaps on the raw devices so hopefully the few who > have a need for files will read the documentation :-) > > (and yes, I check for FMODE_WRITE) Umm... Where? -- 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
