Re: [Ocfs2-devel] Re: [RFC] [PATCH] OCFS2

From: Adrian Bunk (bunk_at_stusta.de)
Date: 05/19/05

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    Date:	Thu, 19 May 2005 11:45:17 +0200
To: Manish Singh <manish.singh@oracle.com>

    On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 06:26:58PM -0700, Manish Singh wrote:
    > On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 01:40:22AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
    > > On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 03:33:03PM -0700, Mark Fasheh wrote:
    > > >...
    > > > A full patch can be downloaded from:
    > > > http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/dist/files/patches/2.6.12-rc4/complete/ocfs2-configfs-all.patch
    > > >...
    > >
    > > Some comments on this patch:
    > > - there's no reason to make JBD user-visible
    >
    > Sure, the only reason I made it visible was because of the comment in
    > there:
    >
    > # CONFIG_JBD could be its own option (even modular), but until there are
    > # other users than ext3, we will simply make it be the same as CONFIG_EXT3_FS
    >
    > I don't really have a preference either way.

    I'd say the comment is wrong.

    > > - is there any reason why CONFIGFS_FS is user-visible?
    >
    > It's a generic mechanism for userspace driven configuration of kernel
    > functionality. There's nothing specific to OCFS2 about it. Other kernel
    > subsystems/projects could use it too, for their own configuration
    > mechanisms. More details are in configfs.txt, which is included in the
    > above patch. Note the example used in the documentation text is an NBD
    > driver.
    >...

    If other subsystems use it, they should select it.

    > -Manish

    cu
    Adrian 

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