[OpenAFS-devel] using system inodes on linux

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Thursday, June 30, 2005 04:28:36 PM -0400 Chaskiel M Grundman 
<cg2v@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

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> --On Thursday, June 30, 2005 13:31:22 -0400 chas williams - CONTRACTOR
> <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:
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>> it works for both 2.4 and 2.6 but is broken for 2.2
> Have you tested it on 2.4? There do not appear to be any in-tree
> filesystems using the alloc_inode super operation, so I'm not convinced
> the code actually works. Don't you also have to worry about reclaiming
> inodes from the inode_unused list in afs_FindVCache?
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> Also, RHEL3's 2.4.21 base does not have the new super ops, so we'd want
> to retain the current code for some 2.4's, or do a bsd style split
> vnode/vcache implementation (the same thing you would need for 2.2).

I think it is unlikely to be worth the effort to ensure this approach works 
and continues to work on 2.4.

-- Jeff