[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 0/11] Dedicated metadata read functions

Joel Becker Joel.Becker at oracle.com
Thu Nov 13 14:53:36 PST 2008


On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:49:10PM -0800, Joel Becker wrote:
> The following patch series builds on top of the read_block cleanups to
> provide dedicated functions to read the various types of ocfs2 metadata.
> Rather than calling ocfs2_read_block[s]() directly, functions wanting an
> inode now call ocfs2_read_inode_block().  The same is true for extent
> blocks, group descriptors, and dirblocks.  I will get to xattr blocks
> later.

	Ack - xattr blocks are in this series now too.  See:

>       ocfs2: Wrap xattr block reads in a dedicated function

Joel

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