[Linux-cachefs] Re: [PATCH 0/12] FS-Cache: Generic filesystem caching facility

[Andrew Morton]

David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> What I'm trying to do is actually fairly simple in concept:
> 
>   (1) Have a metadata inode (imeta) that covers the block device.
> 

Can you remind me again why it requires a blockdev rather than a regular file?

coz people are just going to go and use a loopback mount to get their
blockdev, which is a bit sad.