Re: [patch 1/3] add the fsblock layer

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 08:26:50AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> Since we're testing new code, I would just leave the blkdev address
> space alone.  If a filesystem wants to use fsblocks, they allocate a new
> inode during mount, stuff it into their private super block (or in the
> generic super), and use that for everything.  Basically ignoring the
> block device address space completely.

Exactly, same thing XFS does.

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