From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.7 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E1C7C11F69 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2021 11:54:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B44E610C7 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2021 11:54:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S235993AbhGML53 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2021 07:57:29 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:55746 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S235797AbhGML52 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2021 07:57:28 -0400 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5879161073; Tue, 13 Jul 2021 11:54:37 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1626177278; bh=EOF664GU/JirSb7RMAso8Dcg/Y3qoOHNWnB1kKbxHjg=; h=Subject:From:To:Cc:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=tmz32O2m6om0NPJsfboZXP6uqvtAQnEG7DYsbEjS3+k/Xe5etqlymRxdbECnGmh1C z5j0RA6nJwMhBhsLG8pU4AcDr6W5/W9k31qSzMiAkOog/pCTqhDog/GUlhN1KqX8zD gZY7QBWlB8fCJBHNdlztMY1WAwP+4G5nELTX+beQabqbFnQxXRapd9Ni5DvvCKrQBd KE/NuQJ4oOR35RzxA/QH6uenAUXFKonUmppkjol8V7MxjytMXiX4KZfySngMEB7VGQ QguKVYt+FQkfbsgeBnbUSJGZepWrIlGGLOyr2jNAOezKdIeulmTtMthlV+Tqj6MP0Y PDzr8J/Jc774g== Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfs: Add MAINTAINERS record From: Jeff Layton To: Christoph Hellwig , David Howells Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-cachefs@redhat.com, linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 07:54:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: References: <162609279295.3129635.5721010331369998019.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" User-Agent: Evolution 3.40.3 (3.40.3-1.fc34) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2021-07-13 at 06:44 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 01:26:32PM +0100, David Howells wrote: > > Add a MAINTAINERS record for the new netfs helper library. > > Btw, any reason why this code is called netfs? It is a library > that seems to mostly be glue code for fscache as far as I can tell and > has nothing to do with networking at all. It's infrastructure for network filesystems. The original impetus was hooking up fscache, though the helper code also works with fscache disabled. We also have some work in progress to plumb in fscrypt support, and David is also looking at adding writepage/writepages support too. readpage/readpages/writepage/writepages operations in network filesystems are quite "fiddly", and they all do it in subtly different ways (and not always for good reasons). The new read helper infrastructure abstracts a lot of that away, and gives netfs's a simpler set of operations to deal with. We're hoping to do the same with writepage/writepages helpers soon. -- Jeff Layton