On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 11:03:55PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > the generic file read code so GFS should do so aswell. And there's a
> > technical reason for not exporting aswell as the generic file read
> > interface is far too complicated already.
>
> GFS is different here mostly due to locking,
If it requires locking there it's sendifle and splice_read implementation
are wrong.
<marketing crap removed>
ocfs2 seems to do pretty well using the generic code here, so there
definitly is a explanation required why gfs can't do the same.
> so i'd reformulate your request as a request to extend the VFS to unify
> clustering filesystems - which is a nice cleanup goal but not a merge
> showstopper to me.
duplicating half the generic read code is definitily not okay. I'm
happy to have a discussion about more or less hacly ways to share the
code mid-term.
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