Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753084AbaFCDj7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2014 23:39:59 -0400 Received: from ipmail05.adl6.internode.on.net ([150.101.137.143]:14732 "EHLO ipmail05.adl6.internode.on.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752172AbaFCDj6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2014 23:39:58 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Au2CAO1CjVN5LL1sPGdsb2JhbABZgwdSVYIeiwWdFgEBAQEBAQaQYoc5AYELFwMBAQEBODWCJQEBAQQBAjccIxAIAxgJJQ8FFBEDBxoTG4gmDtBbFxaFP4h9B4MrgRUElxyCY5Z4Ky8 Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 13:39:40 +1000 From: Dave Chinner To: Christian Stroetmann Cc: Daniel Phillips , Linux Kernel , Linux FS Devel , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , OGAWA Hirofumi Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] Add a super operation for writeback Message-ID: <20140603033940.GB14410@dastard> References: <538B9DEE.20800@phunq.net> <538C360F.7020901@ontolinux.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <538C360F.7020901@ontolinux.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 10:30:07AM +0200, Christian Stroetmann wrote: > When I followed the advice of Dave Chinner: > "We're not going to merge that page forking stuff (like you were > told at LSF 2013 more than a year ago: > http://lwn.net/Articles/548091/) without rigorous design review and > a demonstration of the solutions to all the hard corner cases it > has" > given in his e-mail related with the presentation of the latest > version of the Tux3 file system (see [1]) and read the linked > article, I found in the second comments: > "Parts of this almost sound like it either a.) overlaps with or b.) > would benefit greatly from something similar to Featherstitch > [[2]]." > > Could it be that we have with Featherstitch a general solution > already that is said to be even "file system agnostic"? > Honestly, I thought that something like this would make its way into > the Linux code base. Here's what I said about the last proposal (a few months ago) for integrating featherstitch into the kernel: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg72799.html It's not a viable solution. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/