On 09/19/2012 08:28 PM, Ivan Shapovalov wrote:
Hi, Edward!
Hello.
The 3.6 is will be released soon, and among trivial vfs changes there is one pretty non-trivial: removal of sync_supers thread and ->write_super() of super_operations. Reiserfs (v3) compensates for it by introducing its own workqueue; does reiser4 need something like that (or write_super() may be just removed completely)? If yes, then I'll attempt to make analogous changes to reiser4...
Long time ago (before 2.6.32, or so) ->write_super() was used by vfs for sync(). However, starting from .32 (or so) it isn't, so I have written a reiser4 implementation of ->sync_fs() for this purpose. It seems that nowadays reiser4_sync_super is completely defuncted (please, check) and is not needed any more. Reiser4 has its own periodic writeout means (ktxnmgrd). ReiserFS (v3) didn't have this one. So, I think, remove... Thanks, Edward. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
