Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-xfs); Sun, 17 Aug 2003 06:15:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zok.sgi.com (zok.sgi.com [204.94.215.101]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id h7HDFWFl005029 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2003 06:15:33 -0700 Received: from flecktone.americas.sgi.com (flecktone.americas.sgi.com [192.48.203.135]) by zok.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/linux-outbound_gateway-1.1) with ESMTP id h7HDFRq0002135 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2003 06:15:27 -0700 Received: from daisy-e236.americas.sgi.com (daisy-e236.americas.sgi.com [128.162.236.214]) by flecktone.americas.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/generic_config-1.2) with ESMTP id h7HDD5QK7451878; Sun, 17 Aug 2003 08:13:05 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (cf-vpn-sw-corp-64-48.corp.sgi.com [134.15.64.48]) by daisy-e236.americas.sgi.com (8.12.9/SGI-server-1.8) with ESMTP id h7HDD4Rn230114540; Sun, 17 Aug 2003 08:13:04 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: vnodeops From: Steve Lord To: Matthew Wilcox , Ethan Benson Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com In-Reply-To: <20030817043704.GB10246@plato.local.lan> References: <20030817041908.GM19630@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20030817043704.GB10246@plato.local.lan> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-11) Date: 17 Aug 2003 08:12:59 -0500 Message-Id: <1061125981.1982.5.camel@laptop.americas.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-archive-position: 67 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: lord@sgi.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-xfs Content-Length: 529 Lines: 16 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