Re: [PATCH 11/16] f2fs: add inode operations for special inodes

From: Jaegeuk Kim
Date: Sun Oct 14 2012 - 02:52:06 EST


2012-10-13 (í), 20:52 +0000, Arnd Bergmann:
> On Friday 05 October 2012, êìê wrote:
> > +const char *media_ext_lists[] = {
> > + "jpg",
> > + "gif",
> > + "png",
> > + "avi",
> > + "divx",
> > + "mp4",
> > + "mp3",
> > ...
>
> > + * Set multimedia files as cold files for hot/cold data separation
> > + */
> > +static inline void set_cold_file(struct inode *inode, const unsigned char *name)
> > +{
> > + const char **extlist = media_ext_lists;
> > +
> > + while (*extlist) {
> > + if (!is_multimedia_file(name, *extlist)) {
> > + F2FS_I(inode)->is_cold = 1;
> > + break;
> > + }
> > + extlist++;
> > + }
> > +}
>
> This is a very clever way of categorizing files by their name, but I wonder if hardcoding
> the list of file name extensions at in the kernel source is the best strategy. Generally
> I would consider this to be a policy that should be configurable by the user.
>
> Unfortunately I can't think of a good interface to configure this, but maybe someone
> else has a useful idea. Maybe the list can be stored in the superblock and get written
> at mkfs time from the same defaults, but with the option of overriding it using
> a debugfs tool.
>

Good point!
I'll think about a user-made list.
Thanks,

> Arnd
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