Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] fscache rewrite -- please drop for now | Date | Thu, 27 Aug 2020 16:28:55 +0100 |
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> FYI, a giant rewrite dropping support for existing consumer is always > rather awkward. Is there any way you could pre-stage some infrastructure > changes, and then do a temporary fscache2, which could then be renamed > back to fscache once everyone switched over?
That's a bit tricky. There are three points that would have to be shared: the userspace miscdev interface, the backing filesystem and the single index tree.
It's probably easier to just have a go at converting 9P and cifs. Making the old and new APIs share would be a fairly hefty undertaking in its own right.
David
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