From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753079Ab2GMVmr (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:42:47 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:55802 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750743Ab2GMVmq (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:42:46 -0400 Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:42:44 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: dedekind1@gmail.com Cc: Al Viro , Linux Kernel Maling List , Linux FS Maling List , Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] fs/sysv: stop using write_supers and s_dirt Message-Id: <20120713144244.f3c9fb27.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1342103878.18274.98.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> References: <1341323008-29414-1-git-send-email-dedekind1@gmail.com> <1342103878.18274.98.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:37:58 +0300 Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 16:43 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > > This patch-set makes sysv file-system stop using the VFS '->write_supers()' > > call-back and the '->s_dirt' superblock field because I plan to remove them > > once all users are gone. > > Hi Andrew, > > would you please pick this patch-set as well? I also sent you an update > for hfs and hfsplus file-systems today - found a bug while doing some > more testing. Also, I sent UFS changes today, very similar. Most > probably no one will reply and I hope you would pick them as well. > The issue Alan raised around the superblock timestamp is still up in the air. I guess he's a slow typist ;) My take is "no, we don't need to do that any more" - surely all Linux systems have a functional hardware clock. But the changelog should be updated to describe and justify the decision.