All (CC Trond), This seems timely. Has this effort looed at issues distributed file systems have with cookies/offsets, and whether a new interface can offer future relief there? Thanks, Matt ----- "Steven Whitehouse" <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Again, copying in Abhi, > > Steve. > > On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 13:22 +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > > By: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx>) > > > > I repeat below Steve's original mail. Steve you said you have > > some experimental code, could you post an header and a git URL > > so we can have a look? > > > > I have seen in the Corner of my eye a readdir-plus syscall in > FreeBSD > > I will try to find it and post the Interface header as reply to > here. > > Might as well make sure they should match somewhat. > > > > Steve wrote ... > > > As part of the work we've been doing in relation to integration > between > > > NFS/Samba and GFS2, Abhi has been working on a readdirplus system > call > > > in order to investigate the issues involved with creating such a > call. > > > It is still early days yet, but by April there should be some > > > interesting results to present. > > > > > > Please add Abhi to the attendee list as well as myself. > > > > > > Also, it has been some time since we had a NFS/Samba meeting to > discuss > > > the other issues which are pending, such as locking, ACLs, etc. So > we > > > could perhaps also allow some time to do that face to face rather > than > > > over the phone as we've been doing up til now, > > > > > > Steve. > > > > Thanks > > Boaz > > > -- Matt Benjamin The Linux Box 206 South Fifth Ave. Suite 150 Ann Arbor, MI 48104 http://linuxbox.com tel. 734-761-4689 fax. 734-769-8938 cel. 734-216-5309 -- 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
