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From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [1/8] readdir-plus system call
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:26:46 +0100
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Again, copying in Abhi,

Steve.

On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 13:22 +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> By: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>)
> 
> I repeat below Steve's original mail. Steve you said you have
> some experimental code, could you post an header and a git URL
> so we can have a look?
> 
> I have seen in the Corner of my eye a readdir-plus syscall in FreeBSD
> I will try to find it and post the Interface header as reply to here.
> Might as well make sure they should match somewhat.
> 
> Steve wrote ...
> > As part of the work we've been doing in relation to integration between
> > NFS/Samba and GFS2, Abhi has been working on a readdirplus system call
> > in order to investigate the issues involved with creating such a call.
> > It is still early days yet, but by April there should be some
> > interesting results to present.
> > 
> > Please add Abhi to the attendee list as well as myself. 
> > 
> > Also, it has been some time since we had a NFS/Samba meeting to discuss
> > the other issues which are pending, such as locking, ACLs, etc. So we
> > could perhaps also allow some time to do that face to face rather than
> > over the phone as we've been doing up til now,
> > 
> > Steve.
> 
> Thanks
> Boaz
>