Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Apr 14 2008 - 05:08:25 EST


On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 01:44:45AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> By "cost" I refer to extra developer time spent on maintaining the
> filesystem. The most recent example is the write_begin/write_end changes
> which took a lot of Nick's time and rather a lot of mine also.

Which are only an extra cost for complex filesystem. Trivial block
filesystems like omfs just use the generic callbacks and can be
converted in a simple sweep.

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