From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.20 Direct IO patch for NFS. (Note: a trivial API change...) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 20:46:59 +0200 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <15768.39971.417077.834216@charged.uio.no> References: <15768.39196.468797.249573@charged.uio.no> <20020930194227.A22095@infradead.org> Reply-To: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Trond Myklebust , Marcelo Tosatti , Chuck Lever , Linux Kernel , Linux FSdevel , NFS maillist Return-path: Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16]) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 17w5Za-0002wz-00 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 11:47:15 -0700 To: Christoph Hellwig In-Reply-To: <20020930194227.A22095@infradead.org> Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: >>>>> " " == Christoph Hellwig writes: > I don't think changing the filesystem entry points during 2.4 > is an option. DirectIO was added in the middle of the 2.4 'stable' period without any discussion. It should not benefit from the same protection that the standard APIs do. Cheers, Trond ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:41:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:41:46 -0400 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16]:37523 "EHLO pat.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:41:45 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15768.39971.417077.834216@charged.uio.no> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 20:46:59 +0200 To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Trond Myklebust , Marcelo Tosatti , Chuck Lever , Linux Kernel , Linux FSdevel , NFS maillist Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.20 Direct IO patch for NFS. (Note: a trivial API change...) In-Reply-To: <20020930194227.A22095@infradead.org> References: <15768.39196.468797.249573@charged.uio.no> <20020930194227.A22095@infradead.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.00 under 21.4 (patch 6) "Common Lisp" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no From: Trond Myklebust Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> " " == Christoph Hellwig writes: > I don't think changing the filesystem entry points during 2.4 > is an option. DirectIO was added in the middle of the 2.4 'stable' period without any discussion. It should not benefit from the same protection that the standard APIs do. Cheers, Trond