From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steven Whitehouse Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC (expanded) 0/8] New API's for better exporting of VFS from user-mode daemons Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:25:33 +0100 Message-ID: <1365416733.2706.10.camel@menhir> References: <516299A5.8030109@panasas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Steve Dickson , Jeff Layton , lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel , Ganesha NFS List , Frank S Filz , "J. Bruce Fields" , "Lieb, Jim" , Venkateswararao Jujjuri , DENIEL Philippe , Abhi Das To: Boaz Harrosh Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:24532 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935384Ab3DHK2K (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Apr 2013 06:28:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <516299A5.8030109@panasas.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 13:19 +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > Hi > > Steven suggested to discuss a readdir-plus system call. For a better LS > but certainly better FS daemons. I have hijacked his topic to expand it > to a slew of requests we, the FS daemons people, would like to see extended, > so to make our lives better (and faster). It should be up to Steven and the > comity if these are grouped together or separated into different talks. > > I would like to send a set of emails. Each below topic in it's own mail. > Any interested party, please post to the topic of your heart so we can collect > all the information,, header files, status of each topic. The LSF talk should be > not for introduction of the topics but for actual decision making. > > Some of the topics already carry, experimental or more, implementations > and suggested APIs. Some of these topics are just a cry for help, we know what > we don't want, and maybe how we would like them, and what we need is from the > community to give us a green light as to if it is wanted at all. > > This is certainly an exhaustive list, we might want to drop some of them, if > they don't generate much interest. Also if I forgot something please post (JV) > > Here is the list of topics in this set: > - [1/8] readdir-plus system call (By Steven Whitehouse ) This is really Abhi's topic - I've cc'd him, but certainly something I'm interesting in seeing a solution to as well. > - [2/8] Sane locks (UNPOSIX locks) (frank) > - [3/8] File delegations, Usermode API of Bruce's pending patches. > - [4/8] PNFS ioctls/syscall > - [5/8] syscall_cred() a system call that receives alternate creds (fsuid fsgid thread-groups) > - [6/8] Rich ACLs (continued, drive through this time) > - [7/8] Single call interface to getattr/setattr (Frank S Filz ) > - [8/8] Fix fsnotify short comings (single fd with recursive notifications). > > Thanks > Boaz Looks like a useful set of discussion topics, Steve.