On Fri, 2020-01-17 at 14:47 +0000, David Howells wrote: > Trond Myklebust <trondmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > That seems to me like a "just go ahead and do it if you can justify > > it" > > kind of thing. It has plenty of precedent, and fits easily into the > > existing syscall, so why do we need a face-to-face discussion? > > Amir said "This sounds like a good topic to be discussed at LSF/MM > (hint > hint)" > > Also Christoph H is okay with the idea, but suggested it should be a > separate > syscall and Al doesn't seem to like it. Omar posted patches to do > this, but > they didn't seem to get anywhere. > It sounds to me like we rather need a meta-topic about "How do we get simple things done in the Linux fs community?" It shouldn't take a ticket to Palm Springs to perform something simple like adding a new flag to a syscall. -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer, Hammerspace trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
