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    SubjectRe: Pull request for FS-Cache, including NFS patches
    On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:27:24 +0000 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:

    > > Are any distros pushing for this? Or shipping it? If so, are they
    > > able to weigh in and help us with this quite difficult decision?
    >
    > We (Red Hat) have shipped it in RHEL-5 and some Fedora releases. Doing so is
    > quite an effort, though, precisely because the code is not yet upstream. We
    > have customers using it and are gaining more customers who want it. There
    > even appear to be CentOS users using it (or at least complaining when it
    > breaks).

    That's useful news.

    >
    > I don't know what will convince you. I've given you theoretical reasons why
    > caching ought to be useful; I've backed up the ones I've implemented with
    > benchmarks; I've given you examples of what our customers are doing with it or
    > want to do with it.

    Was that information captured/maintained somewhere? It really is important (I
    think) for something of this magnitude.

    > Please help me understand what else you want.

    I want to be able to have an answer when someone asks me "why was all that
    stuff merged". One which I can believe.

    > Do you perhaps want the netfs maintainers (such as Trond) to say that it's
    > necessary?

    Of course, their opinions (and supporting explanations) would be valuable.


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