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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
Cc: Tigran Mkrtchyan <tigran.mkrtchyan@desy.de>,
	linux-nfs <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: nfs-utils and libnfsidmap
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:06:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111128170644.GA3105@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ED39F2D.7050508@RedHat.com>

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 09:48:13AM -0500, Steve Dickson wrote:
> On 11/23/2011 03:13 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 08:54:06PM +0100, Tigran Mkrtchyan wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> today was tracing a bug in nfs-utils/libnfsidmap and after a log
> >> debugging located it and
> >> finally realized that it's already fixed by Steve Dickson (
> >> http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/nfs-utils.git;a=commit;h=d22ef3f525d71b565fcc688557273a6cabeeb71a
> >> ). Nevertheless during
> >> this procedure it turned out that there is quite some code duplicated
> >> between nfs-utils and
> >> libnfsidmap.
> >>
> >> Questions:
> >>    a) why nfs-utils duplicates some part of libnfsidmap and still depends o it
> >>    b) is there readon for code duplication? Licensing or so
> >>    c) what ww need to do to get rid of duplication
> >>
> >> I expect the answer of 'c' will contain something like time and man power.
> >> I am volunteering to to pend some time on it.
> > 
> > I doubt there's any real reason for duplication.
> Just curious as to what code we are talking about...

Yes, maybe Tigran can demonstrate with a patch.

> > Probably libnfsidmap should be part of nfs-utils, actually.
> I guess we could roll the libnfsidmap git tree into the nfs-utils
> tree... if that make senses... It probably would simply things.. 

OK.

> > And maybe we don't need it at all--the original reason to split out
> > libnfsidmap was to share the code with libacl, so the posix getfacl
> > command could do v4->posix acl mapping, but those patches never made it
> > upstream.
> So you don't think this will every happen?

I don't know.  If it's easy to keep it as a separate library, then maybe
we should just in case.  But for now it seems unlikely.

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-28 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-23 19:54 nfs-utils and libnfsidmap Tigran Mkrtchyan
2011-11-23 20:13 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-11-28 14:48   ` Steve Dickson
2011-11-28 17:06     ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2011-12-02 14:41     ` Tigran Mkrtchyan
2011-12-02 15:15       ` J. Bruce Fields

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