On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 08:17:41PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Wed, 1 May 2019 03:14:23 +0100 > Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I do have problems with vfs.txt approach in general and I hope we end up > > with per object type documents; however, that's completely orthogonal to > > format conversion. IOW, I have no objections whatsoever to format switch > > done first; any migration of e.g. dentry-related parts into a separate > > document, with lifecycle explicitly documented and descriptions of > > methods tied to that can just as well go on top of that. > > OK, great. > > That said, let's hold the format conversion for 5.3 (or *maybe* > late-merge-window 5.2). It's a big set of patches to shovel in at this > point, and while it's good work, it's not screamingly urgent. My > suggestion would be to take Eric's stuff, it shouldn't be a problem to > adjust to it. OK, it's in vfs.git#work.misc; will be in #for-next when I sort the work.icache mess out...
