From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Add two VFS exports used by POHMELFS
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:56:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090113165630.GA25450@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090113124346.GA26101@ioremap.net>
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 03:43:46PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> Hi.
>
> POHMELFS is a very high-performance parallel network filesystem with
> coherent local cache of data and metadata. It entered maintenance mode
> and is being prepared for the next submission cycle.
> I decided first to push it into the drivers/staging which was acked
> by Greg for the wider testing and review and move into the vanilla tree
> in the next merge window.
>
> POHMELFS needs two exports from the core VFS: add_to_page_cache_lru and
> __lock_page_killable.
>
> Please apply given patch to the current tree.
>
> Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Hm, usually we take exports at the same time the user goes into the
tree.
I don't mind adding these exports with the same patch series to add your
filesystem to the drivers/staging tree, if Andrew and the other vfs
developers agree it's a sane thing to be exporting.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-13 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-13 12:43 Add two VFS exports used by POHMELFS Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 16:56 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-01-13 21:30 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
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