From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: dmapi support for reiser4 Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 20:07:15 -0700 Message-ID: <42C361E3.7030406@namesys.com> References: <20050628093408.GA23882@lisa.goe.net> <1119958258.3495.52.camel@tribesman.namesys.com> <20050629115713.GC3610@lisa.goe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <20050629115713.GC3610@lisa.goe.net> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Bjoern JACKE Cc: Vladimir Saveliev , reiserfs-list@namesys.com Bjoern JACKE wrote: > On 2005-06-28 at 15:31 +0400 Vladimir Saveliev sent off: > >>> DMAPI support is a feature which is essential for usage in many >>> important environments. Are there any plans to add dmapi support to >>> reiser4 ? >>> >> there is no currently > > > would be very nice to have that, one day reiser4 has survived all the > troubleful discussion about kernel integration it is in right now. > DMAPI is really a feature which is a must-have for big setups. One of > the reasons is file allocation info which is retrievable which makes > sparse file handling efficient. Of course there are much more useful > posibilities DMAPI gives to get over POSIX limitation. XFS, JFS2, > GPFS, Veritas filesystem for Solaris, they all have DMAPI support and > reiser4 will not be a real competitor without this. I hope it will > come one day ... > > Bjoern > > All it requires is money...... :-/ If you have some knowledge of someone who might fund it, let me know.