From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCHSET v3.1 0/7] data integrity: Stabilize pages during writeback for various fses Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 10:01:50 -0400 Message-ID: <20110517140150.GA7030@infradead.org> References: <20110509230318.19566.66202.stgit@elm3c44.beaverton.ibm.com> <20110516190427.GN20579@tux1.beaverton.ibm.com> <20110516202710.GA32630@infradead.org> <20110516205535.GP20579@tux1.beaverton.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Theodore Tso , Jan Kara , Alexander Viro , OGAWA Hirofumi , Jens Axboe , "Martin K. Petersen" , Jeff Layton , Dave Chinner , linux-kernel , Dave Hansen , linux-mm@kvack.org, Chris Mason , Joel Becker , linux-scsi , linux-fsdevel , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Mingming Cao To: "Darrick J. Wong" Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:52576 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754184Ab1EQOCT (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 May 2011 10:02:19 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110516205535.GP20579@tux1.beaverton.ibm.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 01:55:35PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > As for Al Viro, he's still listed as the VFS maintainer; isn't he resting? > I guess he did nominate you for the holding off of morons (like me). :) Al is back in action. Anyway, the point stands, this is VFS material and you should formally submit the bits to the maintainer. Note that there is very little fs specific material left, with Hirofumi beeing at least not overly exited by fat patches for now, and the only real ext4 patch going away with Jan's series to make it use the generic page_mkwrite code.