Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261772AbVAHCVC (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2005 21:21:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261773AbVAHCVC (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2005 21:21:02 -0500 Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.130]:488 "EHLO e32.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261772AbVAHCU5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2005 21:20:57 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:20:29 -0800 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Andrew Morton Cc: Alan Cox , hch@infradead.org, mingo@elte.hu, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, arjan@infradead.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, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports Message-ID: <20050108022029.GG1267@us.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@us.ibm.com References: <20050106212417.GQ26051@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20050106152621.395f935e.akpm@osdl.org> <20050106234123.GA27869@infradead.org> <20050106162928.650e9d71.akpm@osdl.org> <20050107002624.GA29006@infradead.org> <20050107090014.GA24946@elte.hu> <20050107091542.GA5295@infradead.org> <20050107140034.46aec534.akpm@osdl.org> <1105136713.7079.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050107161225.2a09aeb5.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050107161225.2a09aeb5.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 977 Lines: 21 On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 04:12:25PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > > > People have been trying to get this stuff fixed for a long time. There > > are no sane users of it, there are no apparent legal users of it and the > > one remaining problem has shown no sign of wishing to change and will no > > doubt try the same again in twelve months. > > I doubt if that is correct. Paul? If MVFS tries the same again in twelve months, they will be going through some representative other than myself. In fact, if MVFS does not have a credible plan for accommodating a twelve-months-from-now loss of these exports within 30 days, their management will be hearing from me. Thanx, Paul - 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/