From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 0/8] Cleancache: overview Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:40:19 -0400 Message-ID: <20100622064019.GA22099@infradead.org> References: <20100621231809.GA11111@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: chris.mason@oracle.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, akpm@linux-foundation.org, adilger@sun.com, tytso@mit.edu, mfasheh@suse.com, joel.becker@oracle.com, matthew@wil.cx, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, ngupta@vflare.org, jeremy@goop.org, JBeulich@novell.com, kurt.hackel@oracle.com, npiggin@suse.de, dave.mccracken@oracle.com, riel@redhat.com, avi@redhat.com, konrad.wilk@oracle.com To: Dan Magenheimer Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:39977 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753576Ab0FVGka (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:40:30 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100621231809.GA11111@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: What all this fails to explain is that this actually is useful for? Your series adds lots of crappy code, entiely stupid interactions with a handfull filesystems, but no actual users.