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From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, jack@suse.cz, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] first step toward the new truncate sequence
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 17:13:53 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100531071353.GA9453@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100530204932.GA21002@lst.de>

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:49:32PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This series is something that I see as the first major step towards
> a broad switch to the new truncate sequence.  The patches get rid
> of the _newtrunc variant of blockdev_direct_IO & friends and
> *_write_begin, and clean up some bits in that area that make the
> switch easier.  After this we have all vmtruncate instances except
> for inode_setattr in filesystem code.

Nice. It looks good.


>  A second series to deal
> with ->setattr will follow and after that we can easily switch
> over one filesystem after another.
> 
> I think this is still 2.6.34 material as it will make the fs
> switches a lot easier and avoid introducing the _newtrunc variants
> for one kernel release.

No objections from me, but what is the policy on changing exported APIs
without changing the name?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-31  7:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-30 20:49 [PATCH 0/6] first step toward the new truncate sequence Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-30 20:49 ` [PATCH 1/6] sort out blockdev_direct_IO variants Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-01 23:00   ` Jan Kara
2010-06-01 23:12     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-01 23:16       ` Jan Kara
2010-05-30 20:49 ` [PATCH 2/6] get rid of nobh_write_begin_newtrunc Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-30 20:50 ` [PATCH 3/6] get rid of cont_write_begin_newtrunc Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-30 20:50 ` [PATCH 4/6] clean up write_begin usage for directories in pagecache Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-30 20:50 ` [PATCH 5/6] introduce __block_write_begin Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-31  8:10   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-01 23:39   ` Jan Kara
2010-06-02  7:25     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-02  9:47       ` Jan Kara
2010-05-30 20:50 ` [PATCH 6/6] get rid of block_write_begin_newtrunc Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-31  7:13 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2010-05-31  7:38   ` [PATCH 0/6] first step toward the new truncate sequence Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-31  7:45     ` Nick Piggin
2010-05-31  9:50 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-05-31 10:17   ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-05-31 13:15     ` Nick Piggin
2010-05-31 13:18       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-31 13:21       ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-01 10:07   ` Christoph Hellwig

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