On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 12 Mar 2000 22:00:53 -0500 (EST), Gregory Maxwell
> <greg@linuxpower.cx> said:
>
> > When I looked the other day (please excuse memory fuzz), there was only
> > ONE small, veryfiable patch made outside of the reiserfs directory
> > excluding includes, makefile, and menu garbage.
>
> > They removed the VFS bastardazation. :)
>
> Most of it. It still uses a whole bunch of fs-specific flags in the
> buffer_head flags word, which was one of the things Linus objected to
> last time we tried to sort out a decent IO abstraction for journaling,
That's a good point, but I did not realize Linus objected to the bits
themselves. We do have 5 of our own bits that we set in the
buffer head b_state, and the journal depends on them a great deal. If
people have large objections to them, please bring them up now.
> but it is _much_ cleaner than the old 2.2 diffs.
>
thanks,
Chris
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