> -----Original Message----- > From: Zach Brown [mailto:zab@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 1:22 PM > To: Ric Wheeler > Cc: Paolo Bonzini; Myklebust, Trond; Linux FS Devel; linux- > kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Chris L. Mason; Christoph Hellwig; Alexander Viro; > Martin K. Petersen; Hannes Reinecke; Joel Becker > Subject: Re: New copyfile system call - discuss before LSF? > > > This seems to be suspiciously close to a clear consensus on how to > > move forward after many years of spinning our wheels. Anyone want to > > promote an actual patch before we change our collective minds? > > It seems like we'd want to start with the exisiting (presumably > bitrotten) prototypes that Trond has for nfs and that Martin has for > block->scsi. Mash the new syscall on top of and get them working in > current mainline. > > I'd be happy to take responsibility for making forward progress if no one else > has the bandwidth. > > Trond, Martin, would that make sense? Are the most recent versions of the > prototypes available somewhere? Hi Zach, The wildly bitrotten NFS copyfile prototype can be found on ftp://ftp.netapp.com/frm-ntap/opensource/linux_copyfileat/v2/linux_copyfileat_v2.tgz Please open with extreme caution and apply the resulting patches to a Linux 2.6.34.2 kernel... Cheers Trond -- 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
