From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755919AbYDBQCj (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Apr 2008 12:02:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757575AbYDBQCX (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Apr 2008 12:02:23 -0400 Received: from ns1.bluetone.cz ([212.158.128.13]:58923 "EHLO ns1.bluetone.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757515AbYDBQCW (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Apr 2008 12:02:22 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 8047 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:02:22 EDT Message-ID: <47F38E90.20306@slax.org> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:48:00 +0200 From: Tomas M User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erez Zadok CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, hch@infradead.org Subject: Re: [GIT PULL -mm] 00/14 VFS/Unionfs updates/fixes/cleanups References: <12070840162442-git-send-email-ezk@cs.sunysb.edu> In-Reply-To: <12070840162442-git-send-email-ezk@cs.sunysb.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 1. Based on recommendations we've received while at LSF'08, we've changed > Unionfs to use the vm_operations->fault method, instead of > address_space_operations. This makes unionfs's code smaller, runs faster > (reduce memory pressure), and removes a number of potential races. This > change is significant ... Interesting to see you're finally switching to the approach, which is in AUFS for ages. May I ask you, why did it took so long? Mainly, why did you refused to make the changes last year? Thank you Tomas M