From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 025053148D9; Tue, 7 Jul 2026 19:05:34 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1783451136; cv=none; b=Low3a715Nmt2TJnmD1lpXYbRBuNfdCS8xLg4IT2x+owahT1vWuJLFpx8USN9zOSrORI539O49SOay55z6ApUPotdQmxWD5fprrpc1QqtAM535yb1GV+09hmSU1OM23CS/gt/uISAeGMrhRIDAbycNyV1Z3lDcZZGEDP3CnM8Awc= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1783451136; c=relaxed/simple; bh=VIAVGByRbKVmnQ9qZjpf7nj0iyuTpXOWR2qikgwD6N8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=e9gz6OWwddv2z4GTuLgspfzuTEO6xLGJwPSQckTnRiwrBj8RUydQoc5E40qKZnerGuN0Z/B4PHeUUAi9sOZiAEOOgLle+EkF0QqLNBNNh93a4PZkruQnXD4C/LnZEG1Dl16HdTjyg8v8phWAXgFdtcGAf0kygeXrdn0wrzJzWcI= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=TFTDc4mh; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="TFTDc4mh" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EEF4C1F000E9; Tue, 7 Jul 2026 19:05:32 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1783451134; bh=9he0Lj8iGDsoUDXw1lOp97qkLyYrbq1eZsl8g12jV34=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=TFTDc4mhN56We/IKn+QePPnsSN5M0B6gg7xg2xFmQna9Dwe1FhqI9ptIzapqikXuN +51UhcvKiu2Zvg1FvVM5Amn2OW3e0LxFyq44+lOsPeSIwnFYCazpKq1SBWaXfOWlsV A6EeBcJtr9dRoZpYhcBWC3KB6xXfn4r2F6K6PFr8The7SueZZAPFHwDbHaVg4wEDAN 2yoPMWfwnLl4ErAu0M4s7Wqi0sh5zsB+3ce4yqQVxEKplWKCUMGq0kOqw0+IKg08N4 0PcaS3sbba0dXQpgj3vuuhNyMtXFntih59fHWcdsJLYkByMMDi6EQJIKzSHw5iT4kX BKnUMHwME4hrA== Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 03:05:30 +0800 From: Gao Xiang To: Christian Brauner Cc: Gao Xiang , David Howells , Paulo Alcantara , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netfs@lists.linux.dev, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Jingbo Xu Subject: Re: [PATCH] cachefiles,netfs: sunset ondemand mode Message-ID: Mail-Followup-To: Christian Brauner , Gao Xiang , David Howells , Paulo Alcantara , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netfs@lists.linux.dev, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Jingbo Xu References: <20260706030439.14212-1-xiang@kernel.org> <20260707-irrweg-errechnen-matten-dae8db86b437@brauner> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260707-irrweg-errechnen-matten-dae8db86b437@brauner> Hi Christian, On Tue, Jul 07, 2026 at 08:59:17PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote: > > It was an effort to enhance fscache as a kernel cache for lazy > > pulling (at least according to previous Incremental FS discussion [1]) > > and EROFS over fscache was the in-tree user of this mode. > > > > fscache has since evolved to be netfslib-oriented, serving network > > filesystem inodes via the netfs library, but EROFS never acts as a > > network filesystem and we need to cache golden filesystem images rather > > than individual EROFS inodes. > > > > Since EROFS over fscache is now removed, clean up netfs/fscache/ > > cachefiles upstream too. > > > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAOQ4uxi4dzxArY24YO=+kBCK2gGoq3Ptb8WkzCqSogPgU_R3dQ@mail.gmail.com > > > > Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang > > Seems sensible to me. So I'll take it unless David has objections. I hope David can ack it too. I didn't test this patch seriously since I have no proper environment to set up netfs although it should be a trivial removal. Thanks, Gao Xiang > > -- > Christian Brauner