From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263738AbTGTJNn (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2003 05:13:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263638AbTGTJNn (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2003 05:13:43 -0400 Received: from pub237.cambridge.redhat.com ([213.86.99.237]:7909 "EHLO warthog.warthog") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263637AbTGTJNl (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2003 05:13:41 -0400 To: Linus Torvalds cc: David Howells , Trond Myklebust , Kernel Mailing List , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] General filesystem cache In-Reply-To: Message from Linus Torvalds of "Fri, 18 Jul 2003 20:09:20 PDT." User-Agent: EMH/1.14.1 SEMI/1.14.4 (Hosorogi) FLIM/1.14.4 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Kashiharajing=FE-mae?=) APEL/10.4 Emacs/21.2 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.4 - "Hosorogi") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 10:28:28 +0100 Message-ID: <17793.1058693308@warthog.warthog> From: David Howells Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Ok. Sounds good. In fact, it's something I've wanted for a while, since > it's also potentially the solution to performance-critical things like > virtual filesystems based on revision control logic etc (traditionally > done with fake NFS servers). It really does make a difference to my AFS client:-) > I did a very very quick scan, and didn't see anything that raised my > hackles. But it's late in the 2.6.x game, and as a result I'm not going to > apply it until I get a lot of feedback from actual users too. I can understand that... I've been developing it on and off for a while (it has had to take the backseat to other things unfortunately, depending on RH's whims). BTW, will you be at OLS? I'm only going to that not being invited to the KS (though David Woodhouse has my mobile number;-). David