[PATCH 08/12] xfs: Delayed logging design documentation

Alex Elder aelder at sgi.com
Fri May 21 16:02:05 CDT 2010


On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 09:24 +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>
> 
> Document the design of the delayed logging implementation. This
> includes assumptions made, dead ends followed, the reasoning behind
> the structuring of the code, the layout of various structures, how
> things fit together, traps and pit-falls avoided, etc. This is all
> too much to document in the code itself, so do it in a separate
> file.

I found some typo's and other things, but will hold off
suggesting (or posting fixes for) them until after we've
got the baseline document checked in.

Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder at sgi.com>

> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>
> ---
>  .../filesystems/xfs-delayed-logging-design.txt     |  819 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 819 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/filesystems/xfs-delayed-logging-design.txt




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