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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: cluster-devel.redhat.com
Subject: [Cluster-devel] allow building a kernel without buffer_heads
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 08:26:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230721062628.GC20845@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <251d9862-e335-243e-d65a-c5538b4df253@redhat.com>

On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 09:51:30AM -0500, Bob Peterson wrote:
> Gfs2 still uses buffer_heads to manage the metadata being pushed through 
> its journals. We've been reducing our dependency on them but eliminating 
> them altogether is a large and daunting task. We can still work toward that 
> goal, but it will take time.

That's fine - gfs2 selects CONFIG_BUFFER_HEAD after this series and
will be perfectly fine.


      reply	other threads:[~2023-07-21  6:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20230720140452.63817-1-hch@lst.de>
2023-07-20 14:51 ` [Cluster-devel] allow building a kernel without buffer_heads Bob Peterson
2023-07-21  6:26   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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