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SubjectRe: why is pipe_i moved out into i_pipe?
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 07:11:26PM +0100, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> I just noticed that pipefs breaks the old good established tradition of
> piling stuff unto the union in struct inode like all(most) filesystem do.

pipefs just provides anonymous fifos, doesn't it? So the code in pipe.c has
to work for inodes that live on real filesystems, too..

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