From: Mark Fasheh Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] vfs: vfs-level fiemap interface Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:13:40 -0700 Message-ID: <20080929211340.GF4563@wotan.suse.de> References: <1221331767-16870-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <2EC8176B-0AFA-4B36-A2F5-E51753A576A5@cam.ac.uk> <20080913212903.GF26128@mit.edu> <20080914134859.GB21746@infradead.org> <20080914175810.GB13074@mit.edu> <20080915144948.GB16491@infradead.org> <20080915175305.GS4563@wotan.suse.de> <20080916213106.GA10562@mit.edu> <20080920164759.GY27404@josefsipek.net> <20080929010720.GH8711@mit.edu> Reply-To: Mark Fasheh Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Anton Altaparmakov , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linuxfoundation.org To: Theodore Tso Return-path: Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:57171 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752796AbYI2VNn (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:13:43 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080929010720.GH8711@mit.edu> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 09:07:20PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > Do you have time to update the fiemap patchset so we can hopefully > come to consensus and get this pushed to Linus in time for the > upcoming merge window? I can probably do this early next week. If that's not soon enough, I won't be offended if you or someone else does the update. I agree, it seems like we're pretty close to consensus. > If not, I can take over for you and take over the care and feeding of > this patchset so it can get pushed to Linus ASAP; I think we are > pretty close to consensus on this interface, and I'd rather that we > not lose momentum. Why not let this sit in -mm for a cycle? I know how that sounds, considering how long it's taken everyone to decide what color to paint the bicycle shed, but at the least it'd give other file systems a chance to write their own support patches. There's also the benefit of a little extra time for ext4/ocfs2 to debug their own support patches. Do we lose any momentum if the patches are 'complete' and in -mm with a target for 2.6.29? --Mark -- Mark Fasheh