On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 03:23:52PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > one more question: how much of it you want in VFS?
>
> As much as possible, really. It's probably too late for XFS to reuse any
> new infrastructure, but if the infrastructure is well-designed it _should_
> be possible to us it in new filesytems, and to convert ext2.
Actually, in a hallway conversation with David Chinner at the Linux
filesystem/storage workshop this week, it sounded like he was willing
to at least consider changing XFS to use a VFS-based infrastructure.
So when we put together a proposal for how to do this in the XFS
layer, I would suggest cc'ing the linux-fsdevel list.
Regards,
- Ted
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