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From:   Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@suse.de>
To:     "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] Support negative dentries on case-insensitive
 ext4 and f2fs
Organization: SUSE
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        <20230727181339.GH30264@mit.edu>
Date:   Thu, 27 Jul 2023 14:39:55 -0400
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        "Thu, 27 Jul 2023 14:13:39 -0400")
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"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 01:28:36PM -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
>> This is the v4 of the negative dentry support on case-insensitive
>> directories.  It doesn't have any functional changes from v1. It applies
>> Eric's comments to bring the flags check closet together, improve the
>> documentation and improve comments in the code.  I also relooked at the
>> locks to ensure the inode read lock is indeed enough in the lookup_slow
>> path.
>
> Al, Christian, any thoughts or preferences for how we should handle
> this patch series?  I'm willing to take it through the ext4 tree, but
> since it has vfs, ext4, and f2fs changes (and the bulk of the changes
> are in the vfs), perhaps it should go through the vfs tree?
>
> Also, Christian, I notice one of the five VFS patches in the series
> has your Reviewed-by tag, but not the others?  Is that because you
> haven't had a chance to make a final determination on those patches,
> or you have outstanding comments still to be addressed?

Hi Ted,

Thanks for helping push it forward!

I'm not sure if I missed Christian's tag in a previous iteration. I
looked through my archive and didn't find it. Unless I'm mistaken, I
don't think I have any r-b from him here yet.

-- 
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi