From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 5 May 2001 22:15:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 5 May 2001 22:14:57 -0400 Received: from f00f.stub.clear.net.nz ([203.167.224.51]:47632 "HELO metastasis.f00f.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 5 May 2001 22:14:46 -0400 Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 14:14:37 +1200 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Jens Axboe , Rogier Wolff , Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , volodya@mindspring.com, Alexander Viro , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption. Message-ID: <20010506141437.A31269@metastasis.f00f.org> In-Reply-To: <200105041140.NAA03391@cave.bitwizard.nl> <20010504135614.S16507@suse.de> <20010504172940.U3762@athlon.random> <20010505151808.A29451@metastasis.f00f.org> <20010506023723.A22850@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010506023723.A22850@athlon.random>; from andrea@suse.de on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 02:37:23AM +0200 X-No-Archive: Yes Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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