From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] Add a super operation for writeback Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 13:39:40 +1000 Message-ID: <20140603033940.GB14410@dastard> References: <538B9DEE.20800@phunq.net> <538C360F.7020901@ontolinux.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Daniel Phillips , Linux Kernel , Linux FS Devel , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , OGAWA Hirofumi To: Christian Stroetmann Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <538C360F.7020901@ontolinux.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 10:30:07AM +0200, Christian Stroetmann wrote: > When I followed the advice of Dave Chinner: > "We're not going to merge that page forking stuff (like you were > told at LSF 2013 more than a year ago: > http://lwn.net/Articles/548091/) without rigorous design review and > a demonstration of the solutions to all the hard corner cases it > has" > given in his e-mail related with the presentation of the latest > version of the Tux3 file system (see [1]) and read the linked > article, I found in the second comments: > "Parts of this almost sound like it either a.) overlaps with or b.) > would benefit greatly from something similar to Featherstitch > [[2]]." > > Could it be that we have with Featherstitch a general solution > already that is said to be even "file system agnostic"? > Honestly, I thought that something like this would make its way into > the Linux code base. Here's what I said about the last proposal (a few months ago) for integrating featherstitch into the kernel: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg72799.html It's not a viable solution. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com