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Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:59:02 +0200
From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] exofs: mkexofs
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James Bottomley wrote:
> 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
> 

LANANA seems dead. I was unable to get any response from any e-mail.
Andrew?

Thanks James. I will personally prefer if these patches will carry
your sign-off on them, thous gaining your long acquired instincts.
That could be really grate.

I will send a new batch tomorrow morning, as Andrew had concerns with
some members names. Unless you prefer a git tree, drop me a note and
I'll send you a URL instead.

Thanks
Boaz
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