From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: Inode metadata and file data syncing Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:08:44 -0600 Message-ID: <20120719180843.GA31693@parisc-linux.org> References: <20120719164905.GC3889@lenny.home.zabbo.net> <5D277944-1E64-4B12-96B5-EF1A3C857371@whamcloud.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Zach Brown , "faibish_sorin@emc.com" , "sarah.jelinek@intel.com" , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" To: Andreas Dilger Return-path: Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:57740 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751856Ab2GSSIp (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:08:45 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5D277944-1E64-4B12-96B5-EF1A3C857371@whamcloud.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:11:18AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Sure, I totally agree. I just wanted to head off any efforts that are just duplicating btrfs or cachefs or whatever for very little total benefit. I can assure you there's nothing out there like this :-) > It's also worthwhile to ask that question early on, before there is a large vested interest in the new filesystem, rather than months/years later when the time and effort is already sunk into the other project and not some existing project. My initial commit to this project was July 2009. It takes a long time to get from "wouldn't it be crazy if ..." to production quality hardware. And, of course, there are never false turns along that path! -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."