On 2002-07-02 14:17:02, Joe wrote: >This is a horrible hack to get around the fact that ext3 uses the >b_private field for its own purposes after the buffer_head has been >handed to the block layer (it doesn't just use b_private when in the >b_end_io function). Is this acceptable behaviour ? Other > filesystems >do not have similar problems as far as I know. Under what conditions does ext3 exhibit this behaviour? In EVMS, we have been stacking the b_private field (for many months), and have not seen any problems or have had any problems reported with ext3. Mark _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
