On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Venkateswararao Jujjuri <jvrao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Nice explanation. I looked at NFS and realized that they also follow > write_inode approach. > So I think you should make it explict that this will be helpful to dotl > also and may and TFSYNCFS > in the future if needed. With that I ack this. > If this is something we really think we'll be adding back in the future, is there someway we can conditionalize its use (default off perhaps) so that if a particular server wanted to take advantage of it, they could. This would seem preferable to just backing out the whole patch. Another aspect which I didn't consider when we added it is what it would do to older versions of the servers which didn't have TFSYNCFS -- maybe this is a good case study for the .L graceful degredation plan we had talked about in the past where you try a tfsyncfs and if the server returns an error that it doesn't implement it you back off to another solution. Thoughts? Sorry if I'm being dense -- still adjusting to new sleep schedule with new baby and spent 16 hours yesterday cranking out two publication submissions, so folks will have to bear with me for a bit. -eric -- 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