From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265207AbUGGPmI (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:42:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265214AbUGGPmI (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:42:08 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.198.39]:3308 "EHLO rwcrmhc13.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265207AbUGGPl6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:41:58 -0400 Message-ID: <40EC19C6.9010309@comcast.net> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 11:41:58 -0400 From: John Richard Moser User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040630) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oleg Drokin CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, braam@clusterfs.com Subject: Re: [0/9] Lustre VFS patches for 2.6 References: <20040707124732.GA25877@clusterfs.com> In-Reply-To: <20040707124732.GA25877@clusterfs.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 | - | To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in | the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org | More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html | Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFA7BnFhDd4aOud5P8RAhiGAKCJJUqqL9aylG8hkfCAD4GpfMYK+wCdHIj6 njpYVufE205L7MFz04ysdI4= =tDnN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----