Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Mar 2004 17:20:46 -0700 | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] JFS DMAPI |
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On Mar 04, 2004 17:54 -0600, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > Would you consider adding this patch to -mm? This would add the DMAPI > interface to JFS. This function has long been requested by HSMs > (Hierarchical Storage Managers). It is based on SGI's XFS > implementation, but has been clean up to avoid their vnode interface. > > Most of the code is in the fs/jfs/dmapi subdirectory. The amount of > code in the normal jfs codepaths is quite small. There is no code > outside of fs/jfs.
It looks like the largest portion of this code is actually not JFS specific. Why not put the common code into fs/dmapi instead of fs/jfs/dmapi and then there will be some possibility that the XFS and JFS DMAPI implementations will become a single one (only one place to fix bugs, etc), and also give the opportunity to have DMAPI support in other filesystems?
I'm sure Christoph will jump all over this (even though his name is in the code), so I thought I'd do it nicely first ;-).
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
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