Re: [PATCH 1/4] vfs: vfs-level fiemap interface

Mark Fasheh
2008-09-29T21:13:43Z

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 09:07:20PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> Do you have time to update the fiemap patchset so we can hopefully
> come to consensus and get this pushed to Linus in time for the
> upcoming merge window?

I can probably do this early next week. If that's not soon enough, I won't
be offended if you or someone else does the update. I agree, it seems like
we're pretty close to consensus.

> If not, I can take over for you and take over the care and feeding of
> this patchset so it can get pushed to Linus ASAP; I think we are
> pretty close to consensus on this interface, and I'd rather that we
> not lose momentum.

Why not let this sit in -mm for a cycle? I know how that sounds, considering
how long it's taken everyone to decide what color to paint the bicycle shed,
but at the least it'd give other file systems a chance to write their own
support patches. There's also the benefit of a little extra time for
ext4/ocfs2 to debug their own support patches. Do we lose any momentum if
the patches are 'complete' and in -mm with a target for 2.6.29?
--Mark

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Mark Fasheh