From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: braam <braam@clusterfs.com>
Cc: arjanv@redhat.com, torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"'Phil Schwan'" <phil@clusterfs.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Lustre VFS patch
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 18:00:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040528170051.GA30411@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040528165649.91F1F3100D3@moraine.clusterfs.com>
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 12:56:40AM +0800, braam wrote:
> Mostly checks are done like in sys_rename.
>
> Some cases require new distributed state in the FS, such as the fact that a
> certain directory is a mountpoint, possibly not on the node doing a rename,
> but on another node.
>
> For this the Linux VFS has no api - we added something we call "pinning" for
> this in 2.4, but not in 2.6 yet.
In general I'd be happier to see code like that residing in the VFS,
especially as I guess other filesystems like AFS would like to have similar
features.In general I'd be happier to see code like that residing in the VFS,
especially as I guess other filesystems like AFS would like to have similar
features.
Where's the current lustre code that sits behind those interfaces? Do you
have a patch that adds the lustre client to the kernel instead of the huge
cvs repository containing all kinds of unrelated code ala the obsolete
lustre 1.0?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-28 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-24 11:39 Peter J. Braam
2004-05-24 11:46 ` Jens Axboe
2004-05-25 1:48 ` braam
2004-05-25 6:47 ` Jens Axboe
2004-05-25 8:21 ` braam
2004-05-25 8:27 ` Jens Axboe
2004-05-25 10:52 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-05-25 11:45 ` braam
2004-05-25 13:35 ` Kevin Corry
2004-05-25 13:55 ` Jens Axboe
2004-05-24 12:00 ` hch
2004-05-24 12:01 ` hch
2004-05-24 12:03 ` hch
2004-05-24 15:33 ` Horst von Brand
2004-05-25 20:43 ` hch
2004-05-24 12:05 ` hch
2004-05-24 18:06 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-05-25 8:21 ` braam
2004-05-24 12:08 ` hch
2004-05-24 13:44 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-24 13:53 ` viro
2004-05-28 16:56 ` braam
2004-05-28 17:00 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-05-24 14:19 ` viro
2004-05-28 23:18 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-05-29 17:53 ` Anton Blanchard
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