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Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 12:13:27 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.27-rc4-git1: Reported regressions from 2.6.26
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On Wed, Sep 03 2008, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 09:26:43AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > Actually both interfaces are a fscking disaster.  The right things to
> > > pass is neither and inode nor a file but a struct block_device.  Al had
> > > all this work done a while and it just needs rebasing to a current tree:
> > > 
> > > 	http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/viro/bdev.git;a=summary
> > 
> > Completely agreed. Al, I remember talking to you about this at the
> > storage summit back in february. What are your current plans wrt moving
> > this forward?
> 
> Rebased, with nfs parts of fmode_t patch taken out (irrelevant for
> bdev anyway and really better off in intent-killing queue).  Other
> than that, it's a straight port...  Same place, same branch.

So what's your plan with this - 2.6.28?

-- 
Jens Axboe