On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 11:56 +0800, David Teigland wrote: > The point is you can define GFS2_ENDIAN_BIG to compile gfs to be BE > on-disk instead of LE which is another useful way to verify endian > correctness.
that sounds wrong to be a compile option. If you really want to deal with dual disk endianness it really ought to be a runtime one (see jffs2 for example). > > * Why use your own journalling layer and not say ... jbd ? > > Here's an analysis of three approaches to cluster-fs journaling and their > pros/cons (including using jbd): http://tinyurl.com/7sbqq > > > * + while (!kthread_should_stop()) { > > + gfs2_scand_internal(sdp); > > + > > + set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); > > + schedule_timeout(gfs2_tune_get(sdp, gt_scand_secs) * HZ); > > + } > > > > you probably really want to check for signals if you do interruptible sleeps > > I don't know why we'd be interested in signals here. well.. because if you don't your schedule_timeout becomes a nop when you get one, which makes your loop a busy waiting one. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
