On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Hugo Mills <h...@carfax.org.uk> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 02:08:15PM -0400, Nick Krause wrote: >> I am doing this project from the btrfs wiki, since I am new after >> reading the code using lxr I am wondering if >> we can base the code off that already in ext4 for these modes as they >> seem to work rather well. I am wondering >> through as a newbie some of the data structures are ext4 based and the >> same goes for some of the functions. >> I am wondering what the equivalent structures and functions are in >> btrfs as I can't seem to find them after reading >> the code as a newbie for the last few hours in lxr. Maybe I just >> missing something? > > The fundamental on-disk structures for btrfs and ext4 are totally > different. You will get very confused if you expect the ext4 code to > work in the btrfs module, or even if you expect structures to be > similar. > > But first -- answer my questions in the reply I made to your patch > just now. Do nothing else until you can answer all three of those > questions sensibly. > > Hugo. > > -- > === Hugo Mills: hugo@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === > PGP key: 65E74AC0 from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk > --- Great films about cricket: 200/1: A Pace Odyssey ---
I believed I answered your questions , seems I need to fucking test my patches. And about the reply about data structures , thanks seems the other fallocate functions are there and I need to read these first , I sent out my patch by accident as I didn't realize I have removed the error return by mistake. Sorry Nick -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
