From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>, Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
volodya@mindspring.com, Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption.
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 14:14:37 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010506141437.A31269@metastasis.f00f.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105031017460.30346-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> <200105041140.NAA03391@cave.bitwizard.nl> <20010504135614.S16507@suse.de> <20010504172940.U3762@athlon.random> <20010505151808.A29451@metastasis.f00f.org> <20010506023723.A22850@athlon.random>
In-Reply-To: <20010506023723.A22850@athlon.random>; from andrea@suse.de on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 02:37:23AM +0200
Basically there will still be a use for the block devices as far
as there are fsck and other userspace applications that want to
use it.
You don't need block device for fsck, in fact some OS require you use
character devices (e.g. Solaris).
I'm not saying we don't need block devices, but I really don't see
much of a use for them once everything in in the page cache... I
assume this is why others have got rid of them completely.
--cw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-06 2:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-26 15:45 Alexander Viro
2001-04-26 18:12 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-26 18:24 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-26 19:00 ` Chris Mason
2001-04-26 18:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-26 19:08 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-26 19:17 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-26 20:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-26 19:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-26 19:34 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-26 19:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-26 19:55 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-26 20:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-26 20:21 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-26 20:49 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-26 21:07 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-26 23:25 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-27 0:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-27 0:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-27 0:35 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-26 21:13 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-04-27 18:02 ` LA Walsh
2001-04-27 18:17 ` dek_ml
2001-04-27 7:58 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-04-27 13:23 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-27 14:32 ` Ville Herva
2001-04-27 16:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-27 19:22 ` Shane Wegner
2001-04-28 4:55 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-04-28 10:05 ` Jens Axboe
2001-04-27 14:29 ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-03 6:23 ` volodya
2001-05-03 9:29 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-03 17:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-04 11:40 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-05-04 11:56 ` Jens Axboe
2001-05-04 15:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-04 17:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-05 3:18 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-05-06 0:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-06 2:14 ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2001-05-06 2:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-06 3:00 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-05-06 3:15 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-06 3:32 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-05-06 3:59 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-06 12:47 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-06 19:46 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-05-06 20:58 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-07 4:08 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-05-07 18:42 ` Pavel Machek
2001-05-11 14:54 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-05-18 14:46 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-11 20:00 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-06 3:38 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-05-06 3:51 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-04 12:15 ` Marc SCHAEFER
2001-05-04 17:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-04 17:39 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-04 17:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-04 18:29 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-04 19:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-05 11:20 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-05-05 17:11 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-04 21:11 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-04 21:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-04 18:20 ` Richard Gooch
2001-05-04 18:35 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-04 18:49 ` Richard Gooch
2001-05-04 19:15 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-04 19:36 ` Richard Gooch
2001-05-04 19:58 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-04 20:04 ` Richard Gooch
2001-05-04 19:04 ` Jens Axboe
2001-05-05 13:52 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-05-05 18:12 ` Richard Gooch
2001-05-08 13:46 ` volodya
2001-05-09 10:30 ` Helge Hafting
2001-04-26 20:11 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-26 20:14 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-26 20:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-26 21:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-26 20:42 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-04-26 20:55 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-27 11:43 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-04-26 19:39 ` Andrea Arcangeli
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.21.0104270953280.2067-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
2001-04-27 17:36 ` Jeff Garzik
[not found] ` <3AE9A69B.D11F0BBD@evision-ventures.com>
2001-04-28 8:31 ` Matthias Urlichs
2001-04-28 13:20 ` Olaf Titz
2001-04-30 8:47 ` Neil Conway
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