Re: [Ocfs2-devel] Re: [RFC] [PATCH] OCFS2
From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Thu May 19 2005 - 04:53:27 EST
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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