Re: Agenda for ext3 developer interlock call (June 21th, 2006, 8:00PCT)

Theodore Tso <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.ext2.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 04:10:08PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Theodore Tso <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > A similar split of the fs/jbd will be made in order to
> > support 64-bit jbd, which will be used by fs/ext4 and future versions
> > of ocfs2.
> 
> That's a bit sad.  I'd have thought that the JBD codebase could remain
> unforked - use a typedef and some kbuild trickery.
> 
> Or is something more that 64-bit-conversion being proposed?

That's a clever idea; the downside would be two copies of the jbd
object code for the 32 and 64 variants (total size: 51k each), but if
we're willing to live the resulting bloat in kernel text size (since
it's likely that we will need both variants), it's a solution that
makes the code maintainence much more doable.

						- Ted

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