From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>,
Linux NFS Mailing List <nfs@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Linux Filesystem Mailing List <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [NFS] [PATCH,RESEND] make knfsd interact cleanly with HSMs
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 18:55:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060508175515.GA9662@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17503.10386.171006.392544@cse.unsw.edu.au>
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 09:16:34PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Monday May 8, hch@infradead.org wrote:
> > NACK. As long as we have no HSM support in the tree there's no reason to
> > add this. From the kernel's point it's just untested and unused code that
> > can break.
>
>
> Greg: you seemed to suggest that there was already code in XFS that
> could make use of this. If that is so: could you point us to it
> please.
It's used by SGI's out of tree dmapi implementation. Because dmapi is such
an utterly braindead standard I don't expect anyone to submit a kernel-based
implementation for inclusion, although support for a big enough subset of
that standard could be archived by proper kernel <-> userspace cooperation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-08 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-05 11:52 [PATCH,RESEND] make knfsd interact cleanly with HSMs Greg Banks
2006-05-08 1:13 ` Neil Brown
2006-05-08 6:42 ` [NFS] " Christoph Hellwig
2006-05-08 11:16 ` Neil Brown
2006-05-08 11:37 ` Nathan Scott
2006-05-08 17:55 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-05-09 2:35 ` Greg Banks
2006-05-09 9:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
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