From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161101AbWG1Izf (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 04:55:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932599AbWG1Ize (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 04:55:34 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:11651 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932587AbWG1Ize (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 04:55:34 -0400 Message-ID: <44C9D0FE.9090004@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 04:55:26 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060614) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Howells CC: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, steved@redhat.com, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-cachefs@redhat.com, nfsv4@linux-nfs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/30] Permit filesystem local caching and NFS superblock sharing [try #11] References: <20060727205222.8443.29381.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20060727205222.8443.29381.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.3 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Howells wrote: > These patches make it possible to share NFS superblocks between related > mounts, where "related" means on the same server and FSID. Inodes and dentries > will be shared where the NFS filehandles are the same (for example if two NFS3 > files come from the same export but from different mounts, such as is not > uncommon with autofs on /home). > > These patches also add local caching for network filesystems such as NFS and > AFS. I'm really looking forward to seeing this in the upstream kernel... thanks for your continued work on this. (Although I admit to not reviewing 100% of the code) Jeff