Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:01:22 -0400 | From | Erez Zadok <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH+comment] fix tmpfs BUG and AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE |
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In message <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710250705510.9811@blonde.wat.veritas.com>, Hugh Dickins writes: > On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> With unionfs also fixed, we don't know of an absolute need for this > patch (and so, on that basis, the !wbc->for_reclaim case could indeed > be removed very soon); but as I see it, the unionfs case has shown > that it's time to future-proof this code against whatever stacking > filesystems come along. Hence I didn't mention the names of such > filesystems in the source comment.
I think "future proof" for other stackable f/s is a good idea, esp. since many of the stackable f/s we've developed and distributed over the past 10 years are in some use in various places: gzipfs, avfs, tracefs, replayfs, ncryptfs, versionfs, wrapfs, i3fs, and more (see www.filesystems.org).
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