Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 07:34:48 -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, gregkh@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 04:23:52PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> > 
> 
> can you try to find even ONE request for these exports from them in the
> mailing list archives? Since I find that hard to believe.

I did not find much when I searched yesterday, which is why I had to ask
Al what advice he had given them.

							Thanx, Paul
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