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From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:37:42 +1100 (EST)
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Subject: Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4
In-Reply-To: message from Alan Cox on Tuesday February 20
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On Tuesday February 20, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote:
> >  This may seem like a lot, but several of these are already
> >  requirements which most filesystems don't meet, and other are there
> >  to tidy-up interfaces and make locking more straight forward.
> 
> As a 2.5 thing it sounds like a very sensible path. It will also provide
> some of the operations groundwork needed for file systems that can only use
> NFS4 temporary handles

I had wanted to get it in before 2.4, but didn't quite make it.

I guess that means that, from your perspective, nfs exporting of
reiserfs remains an extra-kernel patch at least until 2.5 starts up
and the code has been tested extensively and it gets backported to
2.4, or maybe even until 2.6/3.0.  Such is life.

NeilBrown
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