Re: [GIT PULL] fscache rewrite -- please drop for now

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Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:

> FYI, a giant rewrite dropping support for existing consumer is always
> rather awkward.  Is there any way you could pre-stage some infrastructure
> changes, and then do a temporary fscache2, which could then be renamed
> back to fscache once everyone switched over?

That's a bit tricky.  There are three points that would have to be shared: the
userspace miscdev interface, the backing filesystem and the single index tree.

It's probably easier to just have a go at converting 9P and cifs.  Making the
old and new APIs share would be a fairly hefty undertaking in its own right.

David




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