Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 07:12:23 -0800
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>, akpm@osdl.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jtk@us.ibm.com, wtaber@us.ibm.com,
       pbadari@us.ibm.com, markv@us.ibm.com, greghk@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports
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On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:33:32AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 13:04 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 08:32:59PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 12:15:31PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > Yep, you win the prize, it is MVFS.
> > > > 
> > > > This is the usual port of an existing body of code to the Linux kernel.
> > > > It is not asking for a new export, only restoration of a previously existing
> > > > export.
> > > 
> > > Sorry, but "our code is badly misdesigned" does not make a valid excuse
> > > when you have been told, repeatedly, by many people, for at least a year
> > > that you needed to sanitize your design.
> > 
> > The obvious searches did not find this for me.  Any pointers so that
> > I can bring to the MVFS guys' attention any alternatives that might
> > have been recommended?
> 
> 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.

							Thanx, Paul
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