Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [linux-lvm] LVM2 modifies the buffer_head struct? | From | "Mark Peloquin" <> | Date | Fri, 5 Jul 2002 10:23:45 -0500 |
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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
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