From: Mark Goodwin <goodwinos@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, needs a new owner] XFS Alloc Policies
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:08:17 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4998AE71.2040304@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090212185853.GA23056@infradead.org>
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.
>
Yep. It would be good if there was some kind of write-up on
those plans since the feature will be fairly intrusive. I assume
it's been a back-of-the-envelope-with-beer kind of discussion
so far ..
Cheers
-- Mark
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2009-02-12 4:03 [PATCH, needs a new owner] XFS Alloc Policies Mark Goodwin
2009-02-12 18:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
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