On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 09:53:21AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > Your complaint as I understand it is that quick and long-running > operations were combined into one one operation when they would have > better been separated. I agree. Not just quick and long running but semantically different - preallocating space and writing zeroes over every byte are fundamentally different operations. > But I also don't understand why the long-running operations need an > async option. Maybe they do, I just don't understand why. I didn't even bother questioning that, but it's not a bad question either. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html