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Re: vnodeops

To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxx>, Ethan Benson <erbenson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: vnodeops
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: 17 Aug 2003 08:12:59 -0500
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20030817043704.GB10246@plato.local.lan>
References: <20030817041908.GM19630@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20030817043704.GB10246@plato.local.lan>
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On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 23:37, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 05:19:08AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > 
> > So is there any reason to keep the vnodeops layer around?  There's only
> > one implementation of it (xfs_vnodeops) so it seems kind of pointless.
> > Removing it would probably shrink xfs quite a bit, both source and binary.
> 
> i believe its used for CXFS.

It is used by CXFS, and it also lets us keep a medium level of sanity
when attempting to keep Irix and Linux versions of XFS in sync.

Steve




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