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SubjectRe: [linux-lvm] LVM2 modifies the buffer_head struct?
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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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