Re: regarding NFS

From: Trond Myklebust (trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no)
Date: Fri Apr 19 2002 - 08:46:03 EST


On Friday 19. April 2002 04:26, Jehanzeb Hameed wrote:
> > No. inode->i_mapping is initialized by the VFS, not the NFS client
> > filesystem. (see linux/fs/inode.c:clean_inode())
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Trond
>
> but then why does RAMFS assign it..??

I didn't do RAMFS, so I have no idea. Perhaps they figured that the effect of
the extra indirection was not too performance critical?

Cheers,
  Trond
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