From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id n1CIxxtJ077789 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:00:00 -0600 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id B4BC2117CDE for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:59:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [18.85.46.34]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id VoxbgvJ1r2tm9MJD for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:59:24 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:58:53 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH, needs a new owner] XFS Alloc Policies Message-ID: <20090212185853.GA23056@infradead.org> References: <49939F90.20905@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49939F90.20905@sgi.com> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Mark Goodwin Cc: xfs-oss On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 03:03:28PM +1100, Mark Goodwin wrote: > > Series of patches, originally by Dave Chinner. This series > of 18 patches is unfinished and needs a new owner - the > feature partially implements pluggable allocation policies > for XFS. > > A fairly substantial architectural write-up with community > debate/feedback on the design would be appropriate before > embarking on this. Tarball attached for the following: Thanks for posting these. I'm pretty sure these patches will get some sort of makeover before beeing ready, but they are an important building block for some of the interesting work we're planning to do (like the multi device work or ssd-aware allocators), so there will be some action on it. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs