Re: [patch] pagecache-2.3.9-H3, bmap & ext2fs cleanup patch

Ingo Molnar (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Sun, 27 Jun 1999 15:45:11 +0200 (CEST)


On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> >(Our ll_rw_block() cannot handle multi-device requests, but we'll see if
> >we ever need them before I would fix that up).
>
> I just need/did that but not for a filesystem that span multiple devices,
> but more simply for writing dirty buffers to disk at once. If you remeber

what is exactly the difficulty in doing so? Apart from some slight
MD-related inconvenience and some single-major assumption in the 'block
size verification loop' (which is nonfunctional), ll_rw_block() seems to
be fully capable of handling multiple-device requests, mostly because
make_request() handles it already. Am i overlooking something?

-- mingo

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