On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:46:03AM -0500, Chaitanya Tumuluri wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Krzysztof Rusocki wrote:
> >
> > Is there any site/HOWTO/FAQ/sth other place where i can find
> > comprehensive info about kiobufs ?
> >
> > Krzysztof
>
> AFAIK, there's no _authoratative_ and comprehensive info on kiobufs.
> However, Christoph Hellwig has extracted the kiobuf work in the XFS
> tree as a patch. He also provides additional patches for use of kiobufs
> in the a_ops for ext2 etc. at this sourceforge site:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=19681
>
> Also, there were some fairly heated discussions about kiobufs on the
> kiobuf-io-devel mailing list. You can find the archives of these
> discussions at:
>
> http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/8202/0/
Yes - I've also written a small paper on that topic. It is at:
ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/kio/kiobuf.txt
Though it might get a little different in 2.5 ...
Christoph
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Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
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