Re: Questions about the buffer+page cache in 2.4.0

2000-07-27 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 07:49:50PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > So now it's time to start asking questions. Just jumping in at a place I felt I > knew pretty well back in 2.2.13, I'm now looking at the 2.4.0 getblk, and I see > it's changed somewhat. Finding and removing a block from the free

Ext2 / VFS projects

2000-02-09 Thread Matthew Wilcox
Greetings. Ted Ts'o recently hosted an ext2 puffinfest where we discussed the future of the VFS and ext2. Ben LaHaise, Phil Schwan, Al Viro and Matthew Wilcox were in attendence. Much pizza was consumed. We came up with the following list of projects or things to investigate. Some of

Re: [ANNOUNCE] block device interfaces changes

2000-01-10 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 08:07:38PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > No. According to our Legal Department, to satisfy the GPL requirement > that we provide source to the end-user, they required that we supply a > "current" distribution of Linux if the end-user requests it. Cobalt's lawyers seem

Re: [VFS] move active filesystem

1999-05-15 Thread Matthew Wilcox
retval = copy_mount_options (data, &page); if (retval < 0) goto out; - retval = do_remount(dir_name, + retval = do_remount(dev_name, dir_name, new_flags & ~MS_MGC_MSK & ~MS_R