Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Jun 2014 13:39:40 +1000 | From | Dave Chinner <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] Add a super operation for writeback |
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On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 10:30:07AM +0200, Christian Stroetmann wrote: > When I followed the advice of Dave Chinner: > "We're not going to merge that page forking stuff (like you were > told at LSF 2013 more than a year ago: > http://lwn.net/Articles/548091/) without rigorous design review and > a demonstration of the solutions to all the hard corner cases it > has" > given in his e-mail related with the presentation of the latest > version of the Tux3 file system (see [1]) and read the linked > article, I found in the second comments: > "Parts of this almost sound like it either a.) overlaps with or b.) > would benefit greatly from something similar to Featherstitch > [[2]]." > > Could it be that we have with Featherstitch a general solution > already that is said to be even "file system agnostic"? > Honestly, I thought that something like this would make its way into > the Linux code base.
Here's what I said about the last proposal (a few months ago) for integrating featherstitch into the kernel:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg72799.html
It's not a viable solution.
Cheers,
Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com
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