On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 12:19, Sonny Rao wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:32:04AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I forgot the reason why we don't have ext3_writepages() ? > > I can dig through to find out, but it would be easy to ask > > people. > > > > Please let me know. > > Badari, I seem to have successfully hacked the writeback mode to use > writepages on a User-Mode Linux instance. I'm going to try it on a > real box soon. The only issue is that pdflush is passing the create > parameter as 1 to writepages, which doesn't exactly make sense. I > suppose it might be needed for a filesystem like XFS which does > delayed block allocation ? In ext3 however, the blocks should have > been allocated beforehand.
Funny, I am also hacking writepages for writeback mode. You are a step ahead of me :) Please let me know, how it goes. Thanks, Badari - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
