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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, idryomov@gmail.com,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] ceph: Uninline the data on a file opened for writing
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 17:29:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YbzJFytPgSbuh1bx@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e2fcdecb9288dc112d0051e917da5bb48bf72388.camel@kernel.org>

On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 12:18:04PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> This feature is being deprecated in ceph altogether, so more
> aggressively uninlining of files is fine. The kernel cephfs client never
> supported writes to it anyway so this feature was really only used by a
> few brave souls.
> 
> We're hoping to have it formally removed by the time the Ceph Quincy
> release ships (~April-May timeframe). Unfortunately, we need to keep
> support for it around for a bit longer since some still-supported ceph
> releases don't have this deprecated.

OK, I shan't bother pointing out the awful bugs and races in the current
uninlining code then ...

      reply	other threads:[~2021-12-17 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-17 15:29 [PATCH v2 1/2] ceph: Uninline the data on a file opened for writing David Howells
2021-12-17 15:29 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] ceph: Remove some other inline-setting bits David Howells
2021-12-17 16:07   ` Jeff Layton
2021-12-17 16:05 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] ceph: Uninline the data on a file opened for writing Jeff Layton
2021-12-17 16:20 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-12-17 17:18   ` Jeff Layton
2021-12-17 17:29     ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]

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