Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 02:30:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 02:30:22 -0500 Received: from dsl-213-023-039-032.arcor-ip.net ([213.23.39.32]:56450 "EHLO starship.berlin") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 02:30:20 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Steve Lord Subject: Re: Whither XFS? (was: Congrats Marcelo) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:22:35 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: Alan Cox , Andreas Dilger , Dennis Jim , "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" In-Reply-To:

<1014766788.9994.231.camel@jen.americas.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <1014766788.9994.231.camel@jen.americas.sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On February 27, 2002 12:39 am, Steve Lord wrote: > On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 18:28, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > > > > o Posix ACL support > > > > Are you able to leverage the new EA interface?... > > Where do you think the interface originated? A lot of time was spent > working on this and getting the ext2 and xfs code bases in sync. Just checking. So that's one place you're already syncing up with Linus. > > > > > o The ability to do online filesystem dumps which are coherent with > > > the system call interface > > > > It would be nice if some other filesystems could share that mechanism, do > > you think it's feasible? If not, what's the stumbling block? I haven't > > looked at this for some time and there's was some furious work going on > > exactly there just before 2.5. It seems we've at least progressed a > > little from the viewpoint that nobody would want that. > > Not really, there are some hooks into XFS which are probably totally > non-trivial for other filesystems. So could you explain your approach here? This pagebuf-land right? > [...] > > > > > o DMAPI > > > > It would be nice to have unsucky file events. But there's been roughly zero > > discussion of dmapi on lkml as far as I can see. > > Yep, and its not my strong suite. The previous attempt at an implementation > by someone else appears to have died a death. I see Ben Lahaise aio proposal comes complete with a form of event queues, would it be possible to share some of the machinery? > > > As it is we did all of these, and we seem to have half the Linux NAS > > > vendors in the world building xfs into their boxes. > > > > True enough. > > Now if only we could make some money out of them ;-) Make money on XFS? Not directly I'd say, but keeping customers happy when they move to Linux - that has to count for something. As far as making heaps of $$$ goes, just keep shipping kickass boxes running real OS's and don't get sucked in by billg again ;-) -- Daniel - 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/