On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 11:39:54AM +0100, Steven Whitehouse wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 05:13 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > > On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 02:19:55PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > The patch titled > > > fs: introduce write_begin, write_end, and perform_write aops > > > has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is > > > fs-introduce-write_begin-write_end-and-perform_write-aops.patch > > > > > > *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** > > > > > > See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find > > > out what to do about this > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > Subject: fs: introduce write_begin, write_end, and perform_write aops > > > From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> > > > > > > These are intended to replace prepare_write and commit_write with more > > > flexible alternatives that are also able to avoid the buffered write > > > deadlock problems efficiently (which prepare_write is unable to do). > > > > OK, well now Andrew's merged a significant chunk of this work, I > > would like to try getting the clustered filesystem patches back > > in too (Steven, the last GFS2 patch you sent had rejects against this > > tree, so I dropped it... hope it isn't too much work to bring it back > > uptodate?). > > > I think the following should do the trick... sorry for the delay, I was > on holiday last week and I'm just catching up again. There is not a lot > of change from the previous version, just a few small changes in the > upstream code which had caused one chunk not to apply, OK thanks! I'll send this to Andrew after he releases the next -mm and hopefully picks up the patchset again. - 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
