From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:05:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com ([192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m7FM5iY3022255 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:05:45 -0700 Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:07:01 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix reference counting race on log buffers Message-ID: <20080815220701.GA13770@infradead.org> References: <1215752481-6862-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <20080814180603.GA3087@infradead.org> <48A4DB09.7020702@sgi.com> <20080815012807.GA547@infradead.org> <48A4F61E.3050106@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48A4F61E.3050106@sgi.com> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Lachlan McIlroy Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Dave Chinner , xfs@oss.sgi.com On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 01:21:02PM +1000, Lachlan McIlroy wrote: >> - a different xfs_version.h - IMHO we should just kill this versioning >> scheme completely.. >> - xfsidbg. Maybe now with kgdb in the kgdb folks get something >> submitted and then this is taken care off.. > That stuff is there for kdb. Are you suggesting we switch to kgdb and > drop this file? No, sorry for the stupid typo. I meant now with kgdb in maybe the kdb folks can get their act together and try to submit it, at which point xfsidbg could go upstream. >> - modular quota. IMHO we should just stop doing this in CVS, it >> doesn't really buy us anything. If people are okay with that >> I'll send a patch > I don't see any problem with this. Seems like a good idea. Ok, I'll prepare something. > >> - dmapi - well, this won't get merged and currently I don't see anyone >> doing HSM for mainline properly. But I have some ideas how to make >> it less intrusive at least > All that would be very helpful. > Last time I checked the fs/xfs differences between mainline and our > internal tree resulted in a patch around 470KB. Most of that is changes > that we don't push to mainline such as fs/xfs/dmapi and fs/xfs/xfsidbg.c. > The rest I'm working though. Yeah, the list above should have been complete, I just went through the diff yesterday.