Re: NTFS file system driver (update 3)

2007-07-31 Thread Marco Gerards
Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 7/31/07, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 01:19:32PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: >> >> Can you pass it around inside one of the structs? I understand that >> >> passing it around as p

Re: NTFS file system driver (update 3)

2007-07-31 Thread Bean
On 7/31/07, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 01:19:32PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > >> Can you pass it around inside one of the structs? I understand that > >> passing it around as parameter is not really nice. The problem

Re: NTFS file system driver (update 3)

2007-07-31 Thread Marco Gerards
Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 01:19:32PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: >> Can you pass it around inside one of the structs? I understand that >> passing it around as parameter is not really nice. The problem is >> that this might actually break other code, which I want

Re: NTFS file system driver (update 3)

2007-07-30 Thread Bean
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 01:19:32PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > Can you pass it around inside one of the structs? I understand that > passing it around as parameter is not really nice. The problem is > that this might actually break other code, which I want to prevent. I > hope you see this mig

Re: NTFS file system driver (update 3)

2007-07-30 Thread Marco Gerards
Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:31:57PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: >> GRUB already has caching code, see kern/disk.c. So this just can >> better be removed, to fix deallocation issues, etc. > > The caching is mainly for decompression. In NTFS, the basic decompressio

Re: NTFS file system driver (update 3)

2007-07-29 Thread Bean
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:31:57PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > GRUB already has caching code, see kern/disk.c. So this just can > better be removed, to fix deallocation issues, etc. The caching is mainly for decompression. In NTFS, the basic decompression unit is 4096 bytes. If we don't cache t

Re: NTFS file system driver (update 3)

2007-07-29 Thread Marco Gerards
Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 02:18:23PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: >> Was this patch tested on both 32 and 64 bits machines? And little/big >> endian machines? Perhaps other people can help Bean if he doesn't >> have access to such machines? > > I only test it in 3

NTFS file system driver (update 3)

2007-07-28 Thread Bean
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 02:18:23PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > Was this patch tested on both 32 and 64 bits machines? And little/big > endian machines? Perhaps other people can help Bean if he doesn't > have access to such machines? I only test it in 32-bit x86 machines, please report bug if i