On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:27:24 +0000 David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Are any distros pushing for this? Or shipping it? If so, are they > > able to weigh in and help us with this quite difficult decision? > > We (Red Hat) have shipped it in RHEL-5 and some Fedora releases. Doing so is > quite an effort, though, precisely because the code is not yet upstream. We > have customers using it and are gaining more customers who want it. There > even appear to be CentOS users using it (or at least complaining when it > breaks). That's useful news. > > I don't know what will convince you. I've given you theoretical reasons why > caching ought to be useful; I've backed up the ones I've implemented with > benchmarks; I've given you examples of what our customers are doing with it or > want to do with it. Was that information captured/maintained somewhere? It really is important (I think) for something of this magnitude. > Please help me understand what else you want. I want to be able to have an answer when someone asks me "why was all that stuff merged". One which I can believe. > Do you perhaps want the netfs maintainers (such as Trond) to say that it's > necessary? Of course, their opinions (and supporting explanations) would be valuable. -- 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
