Re: [PATCH/RFC] Lustre VFS patch

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 12:56:40AM +0800, braam wrote:
> Mostly checks are done like in sys_rename.  
> 
> Some cases require new distributed state in the FS, such as the fact that a
> certain directory is a mountpoint, possibly not on the node doing a rename,
> but on another node.  
> 
> For this the Linux VFS has no api - we added something we call "pinning" for
> this in 2.4, but not in 2.6 yet.

In general I'd be happier to see code like that residing in the VFS,
especially as I guess other filesystems like AFS would like to have similar
features.In general I'd be happier to see code like that residing in the VFS,
especially as I guess other filesystems like AFS would like to have similar
features.

Where's the current lustre code that sits behind those interfaces?  Do you
have a patch that adds the lustre client to the kernel instead of the huge
cvs repository containing all kinds of unrelated code ala the obsolete
lustre 1.0?

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/