Re: [ANNOUNCE] new new aops patchset

[Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 10:10:18AM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 02:09:34PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Updated aops patchset against 2.6.21-rc5.
> > 
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/npiggin/patches/new-aops/
> > 
> > Files/dirs are 2.6.21-rc5-new-aops*
> > 
> > Contains numerous fixes from Mark and myself -- I'd say the core code is
> > getting reasonably stable at this point.
> ......
> 
> > (compile only) patches for NFS, XFS, FUSE, eCryptfs. OK, they're untested,
> 
> Failed to compile in UDF and reiser for me, but no doubt you know
> that already. Don't have time to look at why - I just disabled them
> so I get some QA done on the XFS and core changes.

Thanks, yeah the "cont_prepare_write" rework is a little intrusive and
affects reiserfs in ways I haven't had time to try fixing yet.

> On a related note - what's the rules for a perform_write() implementation?
> I noticed that wasn't documented with write_begin and write_end and
> I don't see any other filesystem implementing it yet....

Ah, so it isn't, thanks I'll document it. (today I'm looking at doing a
simple_perform_write and perhaps another easy one, which should also help
filesystem maintainers to have a reference).

Thanks,
Nick