From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261463AbVAGPgi (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2005 10:36:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261464AbVAGPgg (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2005 10:36:36 -0500 Received: from e3.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.143]:64649 "EHLO e3.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261463AbVAGPfM (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2005 10:35:12 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 07:34:48 -0800 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Al Viro , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jtk@us.ibm.com, wtaber@us.ibm.com, pbadari@us.ibm.com, markv@us.ibm.com, gregkh@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports Message-ID: <20050107153447.GD1267@us.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@us.ibm.com References: <20050106190538.GB1618@us.ibm.com> <1105039259.4468.9.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20050106201531.GJ1292@us.ibm.com> <20050106203258.GN26051@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20050106210408.GM1292@us.ibm.com> <1105083213.4179.1.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20050107151223.GA1267@us.ibm.com> <1105111432.4179.31.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1105111432.4179.31.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 04:23:52PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > eh maybe a weird question, but why are you and not the MVFS guys asking > > > for this export then? They can probably better explain why they need > > > it .... > > > > As near as I can tell, they believe that they already did the best they > > could to explain their needs and failed to do so. > > > > can you try to find even ONE request for these exports from them in the > mailing list archives? Since I find that hard to believe. I did not find much when I searched yesterday, which is why I had to ask Al what advice he had given them. Thanx, Paul