From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nfsv4@linux-nfs.org,
trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, torvalds@osdl.org,
linux-cachefs@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/30] Permit filesystem local caching and NFS superblock sharing [try #11]
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 04:55:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44C9D0FE.9090004@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060727205222.8443.29381.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>
David Howells wrote:
> These patches make it possible to share NFS superblocks between related
> mounts, where "related" means on the same server and FSID. Inodes and dentries
> will be shared where the NFS filehandles are the same (for example if two NFS3
> files come from the same export but from different mounts, such as is not
> uncommon with autofs on /home).
>
> These patches also add local caching for network filesystems such as NFS and
> AFS.
I'm really looking forward to seeing this in the upstream kernel...
thanks for your continued work on this.
(Although I admit to not reviewing 100% of the code)
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-28 8:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-27 20:52 [PATCH 00/30] Permit filesystem local caching and NFS superblock sharing [try #11] David Howells
2006-07-27 20:52 ` [PATCH 01/30] NFS: Add dentry materialisation op " David Howells
2006-07-27 20:52 ` [PATCH 02/30] NFS: Fix up split of fs/nfs/inode.c " David Howells
2006-07-27 20:52 ` [PATCH 03/30] NFS: Disambiguate nfs_stat_to_errno() " David Howells
2006-07-27 20:52 ` [PATCH 04/30] NFS: Fix NFS4 callback up/down prototypes " David Howells
2006-07-27 20:52 ` [PATCH 05/30] NFS: Rename struct nfs4_client to struct nfs_client " David Howells
2006-07-27 20:52 ` [PATCH 06/30] NFS: Rename nfs_server::nfs4_state " David Howells
2006-07-27 20:52 ` [PATCH 07/30] NFS: Return an error when starting the idmapping pipe " David Howells
2006-07-27 20:52 ` [PATCH 08/30] NFS: Add a lookupfh NFS RPC op " David Howells
2006-07-27 20:52 ` [PATCH 09/30] NFS: Add a server capabilities " David Howells
2006-07-27 20:52 ` [PATCH 10/30] NFS: Generalise the nfs_client structure " David Howells
2006-07-27 20:52 ` [PATCH 11/30] NFS: Use the dentry superblock directly in nfs_statfs() " David Howells
2006-07-27 20:52 ` [PATCH 12/30] NFS: Add extra const qualifiers " David Howells
2006-07-27 20:52 ` [PATCH 13/30] NFS: Maintain a common server record for NFS2/3 as well as for NFS4 " David Howells
2006-07-27 20:52 ` [PATCH 14/30] NFS: Make better use of inode* dereferencing macros " David Howells
2006-07-27 20:53 ` [PATCH 15/30] NFS: Move rpc_ops from nfs_server to nfs_client " David Howells
2006-07-27 20:53 ` [PATCH 16/30] NFS: Eliminate client_sys in favour of cl_rpcclient " David Howells
2006-07-27 20:53 ` [PATCH 17/30] NFS: Start rpciod in server common management " David Howells
2006-07-27 20:53 ` [PATCH 18/30] NFS: Share NFS superblocks per-protocol per-server per-FSID " David Howells
2006-07-27 20:53 ` [PATCH 19/30] NFS: Add server and volume lists to /proc " David Howells
2006-07-27 20:53 ` [PATCH 20/30] NFS: Fix error handling " David Howells
2006-07-27 20:53 ` [PATCH 21/30] NFS: Secure the roots of the NFS subtrees in a shared superblock " David Howells
2006-07-27 20:53 ` [PATCH 22/30] FS-Cache: Provide a filesystem-specific sync'able page bit " David Howells
2006-07-27 20:53 ` [PATCH 23/30] FS-Cache: Generic filesystem caching facility " David Howells
2006-07-27 20:53 ` [PATCH 24/30] FS-Cache: Release page->private in failed readahead " David Howells
2006-07-27 20:53 ` [PATCH 25/30] FS-Cache: Make kAFS use FS-Cache " David Howells
2006-07-27 20:53 ` [PATCH 26/30] NFS: Use local caching " David Howells
2006-07-27 20:53 ` [PATCH 27/30] FS-Cache: CacheFiles: ia64: missing copy_page export " David Howells
2006-07-27 20:53 ` [PATCH 28/30] FS-Cache: CacheFiles: A cache that backs onto a mounted filesystem " David Howells
2006-07-27 20:53 ` [PATCH 29/30] AUTOFS: Make sure all dentries refs are released before calling kill_anon_super() " David Howells
2006-07-27 20:53 ` [PATCH 30/30] VFS: Destroy the dentries contributed by a superblock on unmounting " David Howells
2006-08-01 9:03 ` Jan Blunck
2006-08-01 10:18 ` David Howells
2006-07-28 8:55 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-07-29 6:05 ` [PATCH 00/30] Permit filesystem local caching and NFS superblock sharing " Andrew Morton
2006-07-29 11:12 ` David Howells
2006-07-29 16:30 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-07 17:17 ` FS-Cache patches David Howells
2006-09-18 19:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-09-19 9:34 ` David Howells
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