On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:12:19AM +0000, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 12:18:31PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> > I'm a bit confused. Why exactly is this unacceptable, and what exactly
> > do you propose instead? Having an entirely separate mount point that is
> > sort of parallel to the main one, but with extra metadata exposed? So
> > instead of /path/to/foo/.gfs2_admin/metafile you'd prefer having a
> > separate mount point like /proc/fs/gfs/path/to/foo/metafile?
> >
> I believe that is what Christoph is proposing. It does simplify certain
> things, not least preventing someone from moving the .gfs2_admin directory
> to somewhere other than the root directory of the filesystem or even
> removing it completely which would otherwise need to be added as special
> cases.
>
> On the otherhand, its not clear to me at the moment, exactly how to
> implement this bearing in mind that both the "normal" filesystem and
> the metadata filesystem are really one and the same as far as journaling
> and locking are concerned. Perhaps what's needed is one fs with two
> different roots. I'm still looking into the best way to do this,
Two superblocks, one keeping a reference to another. Filesystem driver is,
of course, the single piece of code, with common locking. There's no need
to have the common struct super_block for that and no benefit in doing so -
only extra complications. You can easily register two filesystem types
in the same driver and have ->get_sb() for your metadata fs parse its
arguments in any way it likes. E.g. by doing pathname lookup on what would
normally be a device name and seeing if its on a filesystem of the primary
type; if it is - grab a reference to struct super_block of that fs
and work with it.
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