> code more maintainable (I hope/wish we could also do something similar with > simplifying the locking as well). I agree, and that is definitely on my medium-term todo list. > Of course with this code, we have to await rigorous testing > ... and more reviews, but please consider this as my ack for the approach. Yeah, absolutely. Is there a chance that IBM can throw some testing cycles at it? I have it queued up for some moderately sized DB runs over here (FC arrays, cable pulling, that kind of thing.) - z - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html