From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: NFSv4/pNFS possible POSIX I/O API standards Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:12:41 +0000 Message-ID: <20061129091241.GA19986@infradead.org> References: <6.2.3.4.2.20061127213243.04f786c0@cic-mail.lanl.gov> <20061128055428.GA29891@infradead.org> <20061128105446.GA31928@mail.clusterfs.com> <456CC616.80605@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Gary Grider , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Ameer Armaly Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:20369 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758806AbWK2JMn (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Nov 2006 04:12:43 -0500 To: Wendy Cheng Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <456CC616.80605@redhat.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 06:28:22PM -0500, Wendy Cheng wrote: > Some of the described calls look very exciting and, based on our current > customer issues, we have needs for them today rather than tomorrow. This > "statlite()" is definitely one of them as we have been plagued by "ls" > performance for a while. I'm wondering whether there are implementation > efforts to push this into LKML soon ? Ameer Armaly started and implementation of this, but unfortunately never posted an updated patch incorporating the review comments. See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=115487991724607&w=2 for details.