On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 03:52:32PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:31:37 +0100 (CET) > Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > The following set of patches attempt to fix the buffered write > > locking problems (and there are a couple of peripheral patches > > and cleanups there too). > > > > Patches against 2.6.20-rc6. I was hoping that 2.6.20-rc6-mm2 would > > be an easier diff with the fsaio patches gone, but the readahead > > rewrite clashes badly :( > > Well fsaio is restored, but there's now considerable doubt over it due to > the recent febril febrility. > > How bad is the clash with the readahead patches? I don't think it would be so bad that one couldn't merge readahead back on top quite easily... The fsaio ones are a little harder because they change generic_file_buffered_write. > Clashes with git-block are likely, too. > > Bugfixes come first, so I will drop readahead and fsaio and git-block to get > this work completed if needed - please work agaisnt mainline. OK. - 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
