From: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>
To: Oleg Drokin <green@clusterfs.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, braam@clusterfs.com
Subject: Re: [0/9] Lustre VFS patches for 2.6
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 11:41:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40EC19C6.9010309@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040707124732.GA25877@clusterfs.com>
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Interesting, but what exactly does this do? Extra performance? How?
Extra security? Avoid deadlocks?
I'm not the kind of guy that just looks into a patch and claims to
understand all. :)
Oleg Drokin wrote:
| Hello!
|
| Following this mail, there are nine patches necessary for Lustre
support
| in 2.6. The patches are against latest 2.6 bk snapshot.
| Compared to previous sets of patches, this one does not change existing
| structure and field names therefore leaving kernel VFS API
completely intact.
| Also raw operations approach is changed, extra inode operation is
introduced
| that is supposed to be called at the end of parent lookup and do
necessary
| operations, if possible.
| Of course it would be great if these patches would be included into the
| kernel right away (and that is one of the reasons this set of patches
| keeps old API intact). Also there were at least some interest in
some of the
| patches from other parties (e.g. Trond Myklebust was interested in some
| intent changes as I remember) and we are ready to work with those
so that
| the patches will suit their needs as well.
|
| Bye,
| Oleg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-07 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-07 12:47 [0/9] Lustre VFS patches for 2.6 Oleg Drokin
2004-07-07 12:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-07-07 15:14 ` Oleg Drokin
2004-07-07 15:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-07-07 15:41 ` John Richard Moser [this message]
2004-07-07 18:20 ` Oleg Drokin
2004-07-07 17:34 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
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