The filesystems already implement REQ_PEEK, but do not fully
use the new filesystem cache code yet. (Because it isn't committed
yet..) REQ_PEEK should be disabled for them until they do.
This indicates to VFS that they are not annotating their cache
blocks (in VM) with inode number/offset info, and therefore mmap()
shouldn't succeed on any of their files. (Most importantly exec()
won't fallback elegantly otherwise.)
Change-Id: Ic57ee422864b4bbc031eadba32973270907b02fd
REQ_PEEK behaves just like REQ_READ except that it does not copy
data anywhere, just obtains the blocks from the FS into the cache.
To be used by the future mmap implementation.
Change-Id: I1b56de304f0a7152b69a72c8962d04258adb44f9
The "bdev" library provides basic primitives for file systems to talk
to block device drivers, hiding the details of the underlying protocol
and interaction model.
This version of libbdev is rather basic. It is planned to support the
following features in the long run:
- asynchronous requests and replies;
- recovery support for underlying block drivers;
- retrying of failed I/O requests.
The commit also changes our block-based file systems (mfs, ext2, isofs)
to make use of libbdev.
