From: Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
nbd-general@lists.sf.net,
Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Nbd] [PATCH 0/3] NBD fixes for caching and block device flags
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:14:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130213171440.GA32217@grep.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130212134349.579be89a.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 01:43:49PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:06:08 +0100
> Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > The first two patches improve the behavior of NBD with respect to the host
> > cache---respectively the server's cache and the client's. The first adds
> > support for flushing the backing storage, so that NBD is safe against
> > power losses. The second properly syncs and cleans the client's page
> > cache when an NBD device is disconnected from the server.
> >
> > The third reports read-only devices properly in sysfs.
> >
> > Ok for 3.9? I saw the last NBD patches were applied by Andrew Morton,
> > so I'm CCing him; Paul, please ack them if they are okay.
>
> I grabbed these and will await Paul's feedback, and a bit more
> changelog detail for [1/3], please.
While we're at it, I'd like to see some updates to the horribly outdated
Documentation/blockdev/nbd.txt, and to see this list (nbd-general)
linked to from the MAINTAINERS file. I'll send a proposed patch shortly.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-13 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-12 16:06 [PATCH 0/3] NBD fixes for caching and block device flags Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-12 16:06 ` [PATCH 1/3] nbd: support FLUSH requests Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-12 17:37 ` Alex Bligh
2013-02-12 18:06 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-12 21:32 ` Andrew Morton
2013-02-13 0:03 ` Alex Bligh
2013-02-13 13:00 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-13 15:55 ` Alex Bligh
2013-02-13 16:02 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-13 17:35 ` Alex Bligh
2013-02-13 0:00 ` Alex Bligh
2013-02-12 22:07 ` Paul Clements
2013-02-12 16:06 ` [PATCH 2/3] nbd: fsync and kill block device on shutdown Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-12 21:41 ` Andrew Morton
2013-02-13 13:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-12 22:15 ` Paul Clements
2013-02-12 16:06 ` [PATCH 3/3] nbd: show read-only state in sysfs Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-12 22:16 ` Paul Clements
2013-02-12 21:43 ` [PATCH 0/3] NBD fixes for caching and block device flags Andrew Morton
2013-02-13 17:14 ` Wouter Verhelst [this message]
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