Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756750AbZABAA1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jan 2009 19:00:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751119AbZABAAN (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jan 2009 19:00:13 -0500 Received: from ipmail05.adl2.internode.on.net ([203.16.214.145]:30240 "EHLO ipmail05.adl2.internode.on.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750974AbZABAAL (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jan 2009 19:00:11 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AqUCAAvoXEl5LB1fgWdsb2JhbACTeQEBFiK2OoVy X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.36,315,1228051800"; d="scan'208";a="285411731" Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 11:00:02 +1100 From: Dave Chinner To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg , Andrew Morton , jens.axboe@oracle.com, kmannth@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sekharan@us.ibm.com, Miklos Szeredi , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Defrag support for inodes / dentries etc Message-ID: <20090102000002.GJ10725@disturbed> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg , Andrew Morton , jens.axboe@oracle.com, kmannth@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sekharan@us.ibm.com, Miklos Szeredi , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org References: <1227561983.6487.32.camel@keith-laptop> <20081125091917.GU26308@kernel.dk> <20081230113514.fe09d495.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20081230114138.cd9e9763.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <84144f020812301208i34e5cc73hac25675f56e6aac0@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1273 Lines: 31 On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 05:04:04PM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > > > I'll need to revert to yesterday's linux-next I think. Pekka, has > > > that stuff been dropped? > > > > Yup, there hasn't been any activity after the last merge window so I'm > > not expecting to be able to merge it for 2.6.29. As per linux-next > > rules, I dropped the 2.6.30 material until the merge window closes. > > The code is in topic/slub-defrag of slab.git, though. > > Well the problem currently is that there is no driver for these features. > There has been a request for this functionality for a long time but both > the primary drivers for this (Dave Chinner and I) are no longer with the > company for which we started the project. I'd be glad to continue this > if there would be an interest by the filesystem developers. Certainly. The problem hasn't gone away and anyone trying to run a busy fileserver while know of the problem.... 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/