Re: nfsd 2.6.28 merge plans

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Oct 14 2008 - 15:08:30 EST


> On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 19:22:37 -0400 "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Linus's release announcement for -rc9 suggested 2.6.27 could be released
> (and the 2.6.28 merge window opened) any day now.
>
> What I'm currently planning to merge is the contents of
>
> git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux.git for-2.6.28
>
> summarized below.
>
> Chuck's contributed a ton of small patches preparing for ipv6 support
> (which we expect to complete in 2.6.29), Tom Tucker has added support
> for fast memory registration to the server rdma code, and Benny's
> NFSv4.1 work continues to produce miscellaneous NFSv4.1 bugfixes and
> cleanups.
>
> There's also one pure locking patch, which makes vfs support for posix
> locking configurable.
>
> And I've got some grace period patches (which I hope will also pave the
> way for nfsd lock migration support in 2.6.29), and some minor tweaks to
> our rpcsec_gss code which (together with recent nfs-utils patches)
> finally makes rpcsec_gss for v2 and v3 work as well as it does for v4.

Thanks.

Is anything happening with David Howells's fscache and cachefiles work over
there?

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