Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] exofs: mkexofs
From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, avishay@gmail.com,
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       linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 15:33 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> >>> Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> wrote:
> >> When, if, all is fixed, through which tree/maintainer can exofs be submitted?
> > 
> > I can merge them.  Or you can run a git tree of your own, add it to
> > linux-next and ask Linus to pull it at the appropriate time.
> > 
> 
> Hi James
> 
> Andrew suggested that maybe I should push exofs file system directly to
> Linus as it is pretty orthogonal to any other work. Sitting in linux-next
> will quickly expose any advancements in VFS and will force me to keep
> the tree uptodate.
> 
> If that is so, and is accepted by Linus, would you rather that also the
> open-osd initiator library will be submitted through the same tree?
> The conflicts with scsi are very very narrow. The only real dependency
> is the ULD being a SCSI ULD. I will routinely ask your ACK on any scsi 
> or ULD related patches. Which are very few. This way it will be easier
> to manage the dependencies between the OSD work, the OSD pNFS-Objects
> trees at pNFS project, and the pNFSD+EXOFS export. One less dependency.
> 
> [I already have such a public tree at git.open-osd.org for a while now]

Since it's sitting in SCSI, at least the libosd piece belongs over the
SCSI mailing list, so I think it makes sense to continue updating it via
the SCSI tree.

What's the status of the major number request from LANANA.  That's patch
number one, and I haven't heard that they've confirmed the selection of
260 yet; or is LANANA now dead and it's who gets the major into the tree
first?

James


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