Re: Ok, making ready for pre-2.4 and code-freeze..

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Tue, 14 Dec 1999 21:59:15 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > For less critical stuff (== near post-2.4.0):
> > ->fhandle_to_dentry() (maybe it will go before the 2.4)
>
> That one is pretty critical for NFS

OK, I'll bump it up in the queue.

> Add isofs breaks on DVD (it has a 4Gig byte wrap problem on bigger disks)

<censored> <censored> write-only code full of <censored> macros abuse.

Toss in the need to accurately separate PAGE_SIZE vs. PAGE_CACHE_SIZE all
over the place. And quite possibly make the latter (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT,
actually) an address_space field - it would help with FAT and NTFS.

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