[Linux-cachefs] Re: [PATCH 5/7] FS-Cache: Generic filesystem caching facility
David Howells
dhowells at redhat.com
Fri Apr 21 19:33:49 UTC 2006
Andrew Morton <akpm at osdl.org> wrote:
> > Modules that might depend on fscache need to know that it's there,
>
> In theory, module A isn't supposed to care whether module B was configured,
> because module B might be compiled separately, or dowloaded from elsewhere
> or whatever.
In this case it's sort of necessary - unless you're suggesting I make FS-Cache
mandatory...
The problem is that I don't want NFS or whatever to be carrying around the
cookie pointers if FS-Cache isn't compiled as that saves memory. But that
involves conditionally changing the composition of structures, something
that's most clearly done with cpp-conditionals.
David
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