From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Piggin Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] new new aops patchset Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 04:13:05 +0200 Message-ID: <20070405021305.GD11192@wotan.suse.de> References: <20070402120934.GA19626@wotan.suse.de> <20070405001018.GK32602149@melbourne.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linux Filesystems , Mark Fasheh , Steven Whitehouse To: David Chinner Return-path: Received: from ns1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:43679 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752906AbXDECNH (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 22:13:07 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070405001018.GK32602149@melbourne.sgi.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 10:10:18AM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 02:09:34PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Updated aops patchset against 2.6.21-rc5. > > > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/npiggin/patches/new-aops/ > > > > Files/dirs are 2.6.21-rc5-new-aops* > > > > Contains numerous fixes from Mark and myself -- I'd say the core code is > > getting reasonably stable at this point. > ...... > > > (compile only) patches for NFS, XFS, FUSE, eCryptfs. OK, they're untested, > > Failed to compile in UDF and reiser for me, but no doubt you know > that already. Don't have time to look at why - I just disabled them > so I get some QA done on the XFS and core changes. Thanks, yeah the "cont_prepare_write" rework is a little intrusive and affects reiserfs in ways I haven't had time to try fixing yet. > On a related note - what's the rules for a perform_write() implementation? > I noticed that wasn't documented with write_begin and write_end and > I don't see any other filesystem implementing it yet.... Ah, so it isn't, thanks I'll document it. (today I'm looking at doing a simple_perform_write and perhaps another easy one, which should also help filesystem maintainers to have a reference). Thanks, Nick