Re: Using filesystem blocks

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 10:26:23AM +0530, Amit Gud wrote:
> > 
> > > Is it wise enough to abstract away the usage of blocks for storing
> > > extended attributes?
> > 
> > No.  Some fs' will store xattr data in the inodes if it fits.
> > 
> 
> First up, why is mbcache code is written at VFS layer than being
> filesystem specific? Neccessarily to take away the coding overheads of
> maintaining block cache that any filesystem uses, even though given
> that only ext2 and ext3 uses it. It facilitates code reuse.

It is not written at the VFS level.  It's a library ontop of the buffercache
than can be reused by filesystems.
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