[PATCH/RFC] reserved pool

Artem B. Bityutskiy dedekind at yandex.ru
Wed May 17 02:49:32 EDT 2006


David Woodhouse wrote:
> I cleaned it up so it looks like this.... and then decided not to apply
> it. I don't like this kind of thing being a mount option. Make a new
> node type for 'filesystem options'. Make it an RWCOMPAT_COPY node type.
> Store the reserved size in it and do it through an ioctl like chattr
> does on ext2 -- and make mkfs.jffs2 write it too. 
> 
> We'll want compression types stored in that node type too, I suspect.
Well, looks fair.

Note: you have trickily decided to kill two birds with one stone, 
exploiting me to add a superblock node facility to JFFS2.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityutskiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.




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