Re: GFS2 Filesystem [0/16]

[Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 21:35 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >  b) The .gfs2_admin directory exposes the internal files that GFS uses
> >     to store various bits of file system related information. This means
> >     that we've been able to remove virtually all the ioctl() calls from
> >     GFS2. There is one ioctl() call left which relates to
> >     getting/setting GFS2 specific flags on files. The various GFS2 tools
> >     will be updated in due course to use this new interface.
> 
> Without even looking at the code a strong NACK here.  This is polluting
> the namespace which is not acceptable.  Please implement a second
> filesystem type gfsmeta to do this kind of admin work.  Search for ext2meta
> which did something similar.  Or use a completely different approach,
> I'd need to look at the actual functionality provided to give a better
> advice, but currently I'm lacking the time for that.
> 
Of all the comments we've received so far, this one raises the most
issues for us. Let me think about this one for a day or two and I'll get
back to you. Ideally we'd like to do it the way you propose, but I need
to check that it doesn't raise any other problems before I commit to
actually doing it,

Steve.