Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 07 Jul 2004 11:41:58 -0400 | From | John Richard Moser <> | Subject | Re: [0/9] Lustre VFS patches for 2.6 |
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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 | - | 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
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