Re: NWFS Source Code Posted at 207.109.151.240

From: Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Date: Wed Mar 29 2000 - 05:20:52 EST


On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 02:47:00AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> Wasn't trying to push anything, there are lots of people who want
> NetWare stuff, just trying to make Linux more attractive to Novell's
> 9,000,000 server installed base and get the NetWare file system on Linux
> out the door. You guys are always welcome to carve up NWFS like a
> christmas turkey and chunk the pieces that don't make sense for Linux
> moving forward. You'll find I'm not too religious about the sanctity of
> my own code, I'd rather be a contributor and team player with you guys.
> :-)

It is not clear to me how the mmap in your code syncs data to disk.
You don't have a vma sync operation implemented, but you use an private
buffer for the mmap page cache. How does the data get back when changed ?

-Andi

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