Hi, On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 13:19 +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > Hi > > Steven suggested to discuss a readdir-plus system call. For a better LS > but certainly better FS daemons. I have hijacked his topic to expand it > to a slew of requests we, the FS daemons people, would like to see extended, > so to make our lives better (and faster). It should be up to Steven and the > comity if these are grouped together or separated into different talks. > > I would like to send a set of emails. Each below topic in it's own mail. > Any interested party, please post to the topic of your heart so we can collect > all the information,, header files, status of each topic. The LSF talk should be > not for introduction of the topics but for actual decision making. > > Some of the topics already carry, experimental or more, implementations > and suggested APIs. Some of these topics are just a cry for help, we know what > we don't want, and maybe how we would like them, and what we need is from the > community to give us a green light as to if it is wanted at all. > > This is certainly an exhaustive list, we might want to drop some of them, if > they don't generate much interest. Also if I forgot something please post (JV) > > Here is the list of topics in this set: > - [1/8] readdir-plus system call (By Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx>) This is really Abhi's topic - I've cc'd him, but certainly something I'm interesting in seeing a solution to as well. > - [2/8] Sane locks (UNPOSIX locks) (frank) > - [3/8] File delegations, Usermode API of Bruce's pending patches. > - [4/8] PNFS ioctls/syscall > - [5/8] syscall_cred() a system call that receives alternate creds (fsuid fsgid thread-groups) > - [6/8] Rich ACLs (continued, drive through this time) > - [7/8] Single call interface to getattr/setattr (Frank S Filz <ffilz@xxxxxxxxxx>) > - [8/8] Fix fsnotify short comings (single fd with recursive notifications). > > Thanks > Boaz Looks like a useful set of discussion topics, Steve. -- 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
