Re: [RFC PATCH] vfs: optimization to /proc//mountinfo patch

2008-02-10 Thread Ram Pai
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 01:28 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:15:05 -0800 Ram Pai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 1) reports deleted inode in dentry_path() consistent with that in __d_path() > > 2) modified __d_path() to use prepend(), reducing the size of __d_path() > > 3) mov

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Btrfs v0.12 released

2008-02-10 Thread David Miller
From: Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 12:00:13 -0500 > So, here's v0.12. I couldn't even make a filesystem on sparc64 without the following patch. The first problem is that these SETGET macros lose typing information, and therefore can't see the 'packed' attribute and there

Re: [PATCH][RFC] fix reservation discarding in affs

2008-02-10 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Then affs doesn't really survive fsstress from ltp very well. The first > lockdep warning I got is from my implement drop_inode patch but even > with that things look quite bad, with both lockdep warnings > and lots of 'VFS: brelse: Trying to fr

Re: [RFC] ext3: per-process soft-syncing data=ordered mode

2008-02-10 Thread Al Boldi
Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Jan 26, 2008 08:27 +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > > Jan Kara wrote: > > > > data=ordered mode has proven reliable over the years, and it does > > > > this by ordering filedata flushes before metadata flushes. But this > > > > sometimes causes contention in the order of a 10x

Re: [PATCH] ext4: move headers out of include/linux

2008-02-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 07:54:32AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > No, none of this is shared with e2fsprogs; e2fsprogs stopped using the > kernel header files about seven years ago. (May 2001, e2fsprogs 1.20). Yeah, I know userspace stopped using the direct copy. But for example XFS has exact copie

Re: [PATCH] ext4: move headers out of include/linux

2008-02-10 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 07:52:22AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 10:39:33AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Move ext4 headers out of include/linux. This is just the trivial move, > > there's some more thing that could be done later. > > > > Ted, is anything of thes