From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261771AbVGLCZm (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:25:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261773AbVGLCZm (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:25:42 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:5774 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261771AbVGLCZk (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:25:40 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 03:25:37 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Tom Zanussi Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, karim@opersys.com, varap@us.ibm.com, richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com Subject: Re: Merging relayfs? Message-ID: <20050712022537.GA26128@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Tom Zanussi , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, karim@opersys.com, varap@us.ibm.com, richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com References: <17107.6290.734560.231978@tut.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17107.6290.734560.231978@tut.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:10:42PM -0500, Tom Zanussi wrote: > > Hi Andrew, can you please merge relayfs? It provides a low-overhead > logging and buffering capability, which does not currently exist in > the kernel. While the code is pretty nicely in shape it seems rather pointless to merge until an actual user goes with it.