Return-Path: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from fieldses.org ([174.143.236.118]:52828 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754124Ab2DLVZk (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:25:40 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:25:34 -0400 From: "J. Bruce Fields" To: Bernd Schubert Cc: Bernd Schubert , "J. Bruce Fields" , "Ted Ts'o" , Jan Kara , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, yong.fan@whamcloud.com, sandeen@redhat.com, adilger@whamcloud.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 5 3/4] nfsd_open(): rename 'int access' to 'int may_flags' in nfsd_open() Message-ID: <20120412212534.GF6667@fieldses.org> References: <20120312154921.GB17153@pad.fieldses.org> <20120312222250.GD8991@fieldses.org> <20120313200117.GA21991@fieldses.org> <4F5FA827.8020606@itwm.fraunhofer.de> <20120313203446.GB21991@fieldses.org> <4F5FB771.9010805@fastmail.fm> <20120313212947.GK31995@pad.fieldses.org> <4F60AC0D.9020204@itwm.fraunhofer.de> <20120412204948.GE6667@fieldses.org> <4F8747A1.8060800@fastmail.fm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <4F8747A1.8060800@fastmail.fm> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:22:41PM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote: > On 04/12/2012 10:49 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > Stupid question: is there any fundamental feature of ext4 this depends > > on, or would this fix work equally well for fs/ext3? > > First of all, Bruce and Ted, thanks a lot for your patience with those > patches! > > I have not looked into it in detail yet, but it should be possible to > back port it to ext3. I don't think there is anything that would depend > on ext4. I also have ext3 on my todo list, but I first wanted to have it > in ext4 (in the sense of stability of ext3, if there still should be a > bug...) and I think for 3.4 it is too late now anyways. So unless there > are objections, lets target the back port to ext3 for 3.5? That sounds sensible, thanks! --b.