From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Matt W. Benjamin" Subject: Re: [Nfs-ganesha-devel] [1/8] readdir-plus system call Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 11:18:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <2086361325.72.1365434310755.JavaMail.root@thunderbeast.private.linuxbox.com> References: <1365416806.2706.11.camel@menhir> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ganesha NFS List , "J. Bruce Fields" , Jeff Layton , Abhi Das , Steve Dickson , linux-fsdevel , lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org, Boaz Harrosh , Trond Myklebust To: Steven Whitehouse Return-path: Received: from aa.linuxbox.com ([69.128.83.226]:3696 "EHLO aa.linuxbox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936291Ab3DHPYz (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Apr 2013 11:24:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1365416806.2706.11.camel@menhir> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: All (CC Trond), This seems timely. Has this effort looed at issues distributed file systems have with cookies/offsets, and whether a new interface can offer future relief there? Thanks, Matt ----- "Steven Whitehouse" wrote: > Again, copying in Abhi, > > Steve. > > On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 13:22 +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > > By: Steven Whitehouse ) > > > > I repeat below Steve's original mail. Steve you said you have > > some experimental code, could you post an header and a git URL > > so we can have a look? > > > > I have seen in the Corner of my eye a readdir-plus syscall in > FreeBSD > > I will try to find it and post the Interface header as reply to > here. > > Might as well make sure they should match somewhat. > > > > Steve wrote ... > > > As part of the work we've been doing in relation to integration > between > > > NFS/Samba and GFS2, Abhi has been working on a readdirplus system > call > > > in order to investigate the issues involved with creating such a > call. > > > It is still early days yet, but by April there should be some > > > interesting results to present. > > > > > > Please add Abhi to the attendee list as well as myself. > > > > > > Also, it has been some time since we had a NFS/Samba meeting to > discuss > > > the other issues which are pending, such as locking, ACLs, etc. So > we > > > could perhaps also allow some time to do that face to face rather > than > > > over the phone as we've been doing up til now, > > > > > > Steve. > > > > Thanks > > Boaz > > > -- Matt Benjamin The Linux Box 206 South Fifth Ave. Suite 150 Ann Arbor, MI 48104 http://linuxbox.com tel. 734-761-4689 fax. 734-769-8938 cel. 734-216-5309