On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 02:48:07AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 08:22:10AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > > I'm open to other ways of fixing this, but right now we've got to > > fix xfs_repair because it's currently breaking filesystems worse > > than before xfs_repair was run... > > Ok, so clearly mark this as difference from kernel code in a long > comment explaining the situation similar to wrote you above. Will do. > It's > pretty obvious that the buffer cache in userspace will eventually need > a major overhaul sooner or later. I wonder how feasible porting the > kernel one would be.. It's not so much the porting that's the issue - it's cleaning up all the applications that use it that is the headache. And, realistically, I don't think there's much of the kernel code that can be used - we have to rewrite all the allocation, freeing, locking and IO parts of it, so we'd pretty much be re-implementing most of it, anyway.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
