> >My latest focus is on completing the work started on by Zach Brown to > >add a kernel interface to allow kernel code to submit aio, and having > >the loop device submit direct IO requests to the underlying file system. So I've been taking a lot at your patch series, and one of the things which would help me understand the requirements behind what you are doing is *why* is it interesting to allow kernel code to submit aio requests, and loop devices to be able to direct I/O requests all the way to the underlying file systems. In other words, what's the use case that you're most interested in that these patches would enable? Thanks, regards, - Ted -- 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