On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 01:55:36PM -0500, david m. richter wrote: > fwiw, i've done some work on extending the lease subsystem to help > support the full range of requirements for NFSv4 file and directory > delegations (e.g., breaking a lease when unlinking a file) and we ended up > actually doing most of what you've just suggested here, which i take to be > a good sign.
As long as it's great minds thinking alike and not fools seldom differing ;-) > most of my refactoring came out of trying to simplify locking and > avoid holding locks too long (rather than specifically focusing on > cluster-oriented stuff, but the goals dovetail) and your work on getting > the BKL out of locks.c entirely is something i really like and look > forward to. Excellent. Shall I make the patch myself, or did you want to post a patch based on working code? ;-) -- Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
