On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 02:31:34PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: > Even outside of that, there are use cases for caching that need not have > hardware assist. Could, would. But in the meantime you'd adding dead wood kernel code, and even worse user interfaces. > >Merging infrastructure without any users is a > >bad idea in general, and merging infrastructure with no user that > >exposes untestable user interface and bloats core data structures is > >even worse. I don't think this has any merit at all at this point. > > There is a user, we are using it. And there's no data structure bloating, > both the file and inode additions are filling existing holes. I'll strongly > disagree with your statement that it has no merit at all. In fact, the merit > is quite clear. Make sure everyone an get a nvme card from samsung supproting their hack, and add it to the nvme driver keyed of a PCI ID check and we can start talking about it. We're not going to add hacks only a specific big corporation can use. Btw, the user interfacess really need man page additions and go past linux-man and linux-api even in that case. -- 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
