I've just ported my filesystem to 2.2-pre6 and was able to throw away about 300 lines of code, the filehandle stuff is great. I was hoping to give it a thorough test and report back before 2.2 was released but you beat me to it.
It just keeps getting better and better, well done! On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 12:29 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > FUSE version 2.2 is out there: > > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=121684&package_id=132802&release_id=301878 > > This can be used standalone or with recent -mm kernels (with the > exception of -rc2-mm2). > > Most notable changes since 2.1: > > - Added file handle parameter to open/read/write/release. This > should make life easier for filesystems wanting to implement > stateful I/O. > > - Added compatibility to the 2.1 and to some extent to the 1.X API > > - Re-added ability to interrupt operations. This time more > carefully than in 1.X. > > Regressions: > > - Removed shared-writable mmap support, which could deadlock the > linux memory subsystem. This should not affect most people, but > if some application breaks for you, I'd like to hear about it. > > - Made the readpages() operation synchronous, again for deadlock > considerations. This can degrade performance, especially for high > latency filesystems, since previously parallel read-ahead is now > serialized. > > In the long run I hope to solve both problems, but neither is trivial. > Ideas are welcome, as well as bugreports of course. > > Thanks, > Miklos > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting > Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time > by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. > Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl > _______________________________________________ > fuse-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fuse-devel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
