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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	jens.axboe@oracle.com, kmannth@us.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sekharan@us.ibm.com,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Defrag support for inodes / dentries etc
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 11:00:02 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090102000002.GJ10725@disturbed> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0812311657050.21595@quilx.com>

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 05:04:04PM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> 
> > > I'll need to revert to yesterday's linux-next I think.  Pekka, has
> > > that stuff been dropped?
> >
> > Yup, there hasn't been any activity after the last merge window so I'm
> > not expecting to be able to merge it for 2.6.29. As per linux-next
> > rules, I dropped the 2.6.30 material until the merge window closes.
> > The code is in topic/slub-defrag of slab.git, though.
> 
> Well the problem currently is that there is no driver for these features.
> There has been a request for this functionality for a long time but both
> the primary drivers for this (Dave Chinner and I) are no longer with the
> company for which we started the project. I'd be glad to continue this
> if there would be an interest by the filesystem developers.

Certainly. The problem hasn't gone away and anyone trying to run
a busy fileserver while know of the problem....

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-02  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-24 21:26 [Patch][RFC] Supress Buffer I/O errors when SCSI REQ_QUIET flag set Keith Mannthey
2008-11-25  9:19 ` Jens Axboe
2008-12-30 19:35   ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-30 19:41     ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-30 20:08       ` Pekka Enberg
2008-12-31 23:04         ` Defrag support for inodes / dentries etc Christoph Lameter
2009-01-02  0:00           ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2009-01-01  1:10     ` [Patch][RFC] Supress Buffer I/O errors when SCSI REQ_QUIET flag set Keith Mannthey

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