Re: [patch 1/3] fs: add an iovec iterator

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:03:50PM -0800, Nate Diller wrote:
> i had a patch integrating the iodesc idea, but after some thought, had
> decided to call it struct file_io.  That name reflects the fact that
> it's doing I/O in arbitrary lengths with byte offsets, and struct
> file_io *fio contrasts well with struct bio (block_io).  I also had
> used the field ->nbytes instead of ->count, to clarify the difference
> between segment iterators, segment offsets, and absolute bytecount.

struct file_io sounds rather ugly to me, I don't know why.  And it's
really user I/O so we could call it struct uio (historical punt intended) :)

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