From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] vfs: vfs-level fiemap interface Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:10:50 -0400 Message-ID: <20080929221050.GJ10831@mit.edu> References: <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> <20080929211340.GF4563@wotan.suse.de> 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: Mark Fasheh Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080929211340.GF4563@wotan.suse.de> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 02:13:40PM -0700, Mark Fasheh wrote: > 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? Quite frankly, the reason why I'd rather not is because I'd rather not have someone else showing up asking what color to paint the bicycle shed. We don't have to have all filesystems with support patches before we merge the core patches; in fact I don't think there's any real benefit in holding back until other filesystems are ready. At least the ext4 patches has been ready for quite some time --- and getting it merged would help us with our online defrag patches. - Ted