[OpenAFS] Re: Problems with reiserfs when start OpenAFS 1.2.11-fc1 Segmentation fault with kernel 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl

[Derrick J Brashear]

*Again* editing the CC line. Come on people, get with the program.

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Ryan Underwood wrote:

> OpenAFS list a while back, and it would take some work to make the cache
> manager work with tmpfs.  Basically it's the same problem with tmpfs as
> with reiser, xfs, etc as a cache; the cache manager was developer rather
> closely coupled to ext2, and other filesystems just don't support the
> operations that the cache manager currently needs.

No, the cache manager was developed for BSD ffs, before there was such a
thing as ext2, or even Linux. It just so happens that ext2/ext3 are close
enough to that in terms of feature set that they can be easily supported.