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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@zabbo.net>,
	"faibish_sorin@emc.com" <faibish_sorin@emc.com>,
	"sarah.jelinek@intel.com" <sarah.jelinek@intel.com>,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Inode metadata and file data syncing
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:08:44 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120719180843.GA31693@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5D277944-1E64-4B12-96B5-EF1A3C857371@whamcloud.com>

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:11:18AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Sure, I totally agree. I just wanted to head off any efforts that are just duplicating btrfs or cachefs or whatever for very little total benefit.

I can assure you there's nothing out there like this :-)

> It's also worthwhile to ask that question early on, before there is a large vested interest in the new filesystem, rather than months/years later when the time and effort is already sunk into the other project and not some existing project. 

My initial commit to this project was July 2009.  It takes a long time
to get from "wouldn't it be crazy if ..." to production quality hardware.

And, of course, there are never false turns along that path!

-- 
Matthew Wilcox				Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."

      reply	other threads:[~2012-07-19 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-18 16:53 Inode metadata and file data syncing Jelinek, Sarah
2012-07-18 17:21 ` Josef Bacik
2012-07-18 17:52   ` Jelinek, Sarah
2012-07-19  1:48 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-07-19 12:44   ` Jelinek, Sarah
2012-07-19 13:12     ` faibish_sorin
2012-07-19 13:18       ` Jelinek, Sarah
2012-07-19 13:50         ` faibish_sorin
2012-07-19 16:49           ` Zach Brown
2012-07-19 17:11             ` Andreas Dilger
2012-07-19 18:08               ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]

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