From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joel Becker Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/5] Fiemap, an extent mapping ioctl Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 13:34:49 -0700 Message-ID: <20080527203449.GD27827@mail.oracle.com> References: <20080525000148.GJ8325@wotan.suse.de> <20080525194203.GB24328@infradead.org> <200805270948.51898.chris.mason@oracle.com> <483C3501.60705@sandeen.net> <20080527164730.GB9707@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Eric Sandeen , Chris Mason , Mark Fasheh , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andreas Dilger , Kalpak Shah , Eric Sandeen , Josef Bacik To: Christoph Hellwig Return-path: Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:35823 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758116AbYE0Uhp (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2008 16:37:45 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080527164730.GB9707@infradead.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:47:30PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:21:21AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > > Here I agree. HSM is a generic enough concept, and I think this > > interface's API w.r.t. HSM is well-enough defined that there's no reason > > not to go ahead & put it in now, IMHO. > > But there is no such thing as HSM support anywher near mainline. Call > me a dickhead, but I'm 100% against adding anything helping HSM until > people get their act together to actually add HSM support. It's > something really useful that we should have, and not something that > should be in really grotty out of tree codebases. I would love to see HSM in mainline too, but this is a single flag that belongs in a well-defined interface. It isn't the place to fight over. Joel -- Life's Little Instruction Book #226 "When someone hugs you, let them be the first to let go." Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127