[OpenAFS-devel] Re: 1.3.77 on Linux 2.6.10 (Fedora Core 3 test): patches for partial success

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote:

> In message <Pine.GSO.4.61-042.0501121755400.10219@johnstown.andrew.cmu.edu>,Derrick J Brashear writes:
>> sorry, i thought you mean using system vnodes, rather than just piecemeal
>> allocation.
>
> i know what you meant.  i am sorry i lost the code as well but like i said
> it wasnt all that difficult.  you just following the code of AFS_OSF_ENV
> in afs_vcache.c  the hard part for 2.4 is making the afs-specific part of
> the inode small enough to fit in a 2.4 inode.  2.6 doesnt have this problem
> since the fs-specific part of the inode is a pointer.

well, i just wrote similar code for osx, which i need to test. and i 
thought in linux 2.4 there was an fs-specific pointer you could use too? 
maybe i'm nuts. it's not worth doing the work for 2.4 anyway, probably.