"Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 10:11:03AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
> > >
> > I agree, actually, I think Stephen and I have been agreeing on this topic for
> > about a year but we haven't had a code patch come into existence. Zam is
> > debugging code to do this for reiserfs using generalized hooks he wrote. He
> > made it a VFS operation, but making it an address space operation will probably
> > take him an hour to code. It is a trivial amount of code which is outside of
> > reiserfs.... I think he missed 2.4, but perhaps he can share with you and Chris
> > (and me actually) the exact code stubs he puts in for this.
>
> Is Zam on the linux-mm list? It sounds like his work is related to
> some other VM stabilisation work pending for 2.4, and if he can get
> useful stubs into that in time, it may still be possible to get it
> into the shipping kernel in time (especially if there is demonstrably
> zero impact on existing filesystems). See
>
> http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/linux-mm.html
>
> for info on joining the mm list.
>
> Cheers,
> Stephe
Thanks Stephen, you are quite helpful. zam, please join that list.
Hans
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