Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] add metadata_incore ioctl in vfs

[Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 06 January 2011, Shaohua Li wrote:
> Subject: add metadata_incore ioctl in vfs
> 
> Add an ioctl to dump filesystem's metadata in memory in vfs. Userspace collects
> such info and uses it to do metadata readahead.
> Filesystem can hook to super_operations.metadata_incore to get metadata in
> specific approach. Next patch will give an example how to implement
> .metadata_incore in btrfs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx>

Looks great!

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
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