Re: Using filesystem blocks

[Amit Gud]

> > 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.
> 

Nice to know this. But intent of my mail is not affected by this in a major way.

AG
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