Steve Dodd wrote:
> AIUI [0], Al Viro, Stephen Tweedie, and a number of others have some
> interesting plans for the block device layer, buffer cache and page cache,
> and the interactions between them and with the VFS -- for 2.5. I assume
> they're busy with tidying up 2.4pre loose ends at the moment, but hopefully
> after 2.4 is out the door and stable there will be some discussion of the
> planned changes on linux-fsdevel. It sounds (I've not looked at your code yet)
> like your input would be useful when that happens. An I/O system that meets
> everyone's needs for 2.6 would be a great goal..
>
> BTW, regarding your comments about Linux documentation - have you looked at
> the work Alan Cox is doing on this yet?
>
Yes, i've looked at Alan's Documentation stuff. And as always, Alan's
work is absolutely excellent -- however, what's really needed is
something like NT puts out with their IFS Kits, a sample VFS code
example for a NULL file system for folks who are porting to Linux.
Would cut down on time along with an "oh shit" list of interface issues
to watch out for. Richard Gooch did a decent job on the vfs.txt file
(it was better than nothing). We need more though to get on par with
NT.
Jeff
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
> [0] Which is probably not very well..
>
> --
> By doing just a little every day, you can gradually let the task
> completely overwhelm you.
>
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