From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] async buffered diskio read for userspace apps Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 13:00:39 -0700 Message-ID: <54BD6267.1090106@kernel.dk> References: <20150115223157.GB25884@quack.suse.cz> <20150116165506.GA10856@samba2> <20150119071218.GA9747@jeremy-HP> <1421652849.2080.20.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <54BD234F.3060203@kernel.dk> <1421682581.2080.22.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <20150119164857.GC12308@jeremy-HP> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Milosz Tanski , Volker Lendecke , Jan Kara , Christoph Hellwig , linux-mm@kvack.org, "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Jeremy Allison , James Bottomley Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f50.google.com ([209.85.220.50]:47252 "EHLO mail-pa0-f50.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751849AbbASUAm (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2015 15:00:42 -0500 Received: by mail-pa0-f50.google.com with SMTP id bj1so40682358pad.9 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 12:00:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20150119164857.GC12308@jeremy-HP> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 01/19/2015 09:48 AM, Jeremy Allison wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 07:49:41AM -0800, James Bottomley wrote: >> >> For fio, it likely doesn't matter. Most people download the repository >> and compile it themselves when building the tool. In that case, there's >> no licence violation anyway (all GPL issues, including technical licence >> incompatibility, manifest on distribution not on use). It is a problem >> for the distributors, but they're well used to these type of self >> inflicted wounds. > > That's true, but it is setting a bear-trap for distributors. But not unique. Most distros are behind on fio anyway, so most people do end up compiling on their own. > Might be better to keep the code repositories separate so at > lease people have a *chance* of noticing there's a problem > here. But that's a pain for users, I'd much rather include it and let the distro sort it. They can just add --disable-smb or something to their configure scripts. -- Jens Axboe From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f47.google.com (mail-pa0-f47.google.com [209.85.220.47]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EE7A6B0032 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 15:00:45 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-pa0-f47.google.com with SMTP id kq14so40701851pab.6 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 12:00:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-pd0-f174.google.com (mail-pd0-f174.google.com. [209.85.192.174]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i4si546093pdj.216.2015.01.19.12.00.42 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 19 Jan 2015 12:00:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-pd0-f174.google.com with SMTP id ft15so9143412pdb.5 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 12:00:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54BD6267.1090106@kernel.dk> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 13:00:39 -0700 From: Jens Axboe MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] async buffered diskio read for userspace apps References: <20150115223157.GB25884@quack.suse.cz> <20150116165506.GA10856@samba2> <20150119071218.GA9747@jeremy-HP> <1421652849.2080.20.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <54BD234F.3060203@kernel.dk> <1421682581.2080.22.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <20150119164857.GC12308@jeremy-HP> In-Reply-To: <20150119164857.GC12308@jeremy-HP> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Jeremy Allison , James Bottomley Cc: Milosz Tanski , Volker Lendecke , Jan Kara , Christoph Hellwig , linux-mm@kvack.org, "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org On 01/19/2015 09:48 AM, Jeremy Allison wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 07:49:41AM -0800, James Bottomley wrote: >> >> For fio, it likely doesn't matter. Most people download the repository >> and compile it themselves when building the tool. In that case, there's >> no licence violation anyway (all GPL issues, including technical licence >> incompatibility, manifest on distribution not on use). It is a problem >> for the distributors, but they're well used to these type of self >> inflicted wounds. > > That's true, but it is setting a bear-trap for distributors. But not unique. Most distros are behind on fio anyway, so most people do end up compiling on their own. > Might be better to keep the code repositories separate so at > lease people have a *chance* of noticing there's a problem > here. But that's a pain for users, I'd much rather include it and let the distro sort it. They can just add --disable-smb or something to their configure scripts. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org