From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755278Ab0JEQFO (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2010 12:05:14 -0400 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([134.117.69.58]:52932 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750818Ab0JEQFN (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2010 12:05:13 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1744 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:05:13 EDT Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 11:36:04 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Dave Hansen Cc: Dave Chinner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org, lnxninja@linux.vnet.ibm.com, axboe@kernel.dk, pbadari@us.ibm.com, Yuri L Volobuev Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] try not to let dirty inodes fester Message-ID: <20101005153604.GA25228@lst.de> References: <20101001191449.0AA0E233@kernel.beaverton.ibm.com> <20101002113238.GF4681@dastard> <1286292345.9970.4231.camel@nimitz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1286292345.9970.4231.camel@nimitz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by canuck.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 08:25:45AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > It's GPFS, which is a binary blob to me, unfortunately. Let them fix their junk themselves then. I'm rather annoyed that you actually are brave enough to annoy us with dealing with this. Seriously, if just about IBMer is now a GPFS henchman in disguise I might as well stop helping IBM at all. And in FS land it really looks like that recently. What about contributing to the in-kernel cluster filesystems instead of making our lives a pain for your personal gain?