Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:35:54 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: GFS2 Filesystem [0/16] |
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> b) The .gfs2_admin directory exposes the internal files that GFS uses > to store various bits of file system related information. This means > that we've been able to remove virtually all the ioctl() calls from > GFS2. There is one ioctl() call left which relates to > getting/setting GFS2 specific flags on files. The various GFS2 tools > will be updated in due course to use this new interface.
Without even looking at the code a strong NACK here. This is polluting the namespace which is not acceptable. Please implement a second filesystem type gfsmeta to do this kind of admin work. Search for ext2meta which did something similar. Or use a completely different approach, I'd need to look at the actual functionality provided to give a better advice, but currently I'm lacking the time for that.
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