Re: [PATCH 02/18] xstat: Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available [ver #6]

2010-07-23 Thread Björn Jacke
On 2010-07-22 at 21:21 -0400 Ted Ts'o sent off: Well, not POSIX, because POSIX doesn't have CreationTime at all. BSD's birthtime doesn't allow it to be set, and the question here is largely philosophical. actually, it can (partly :). But the way it can be done is an insane hack: quote

Re: linux-next: manual merge of the workqueues tree with the Linus' tree

2010-07-23 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Stephen. On 07/23/2010 06:46 AM, Stephen Rothwell wrote: Hi Tejun, Today's linux-next merge of the workqueues tree got a conflict in fs/cifs/cifsfs.c between commit 4c0c03ca54f72fdd5912516ad0a23ec5cf01bda7 (CIFS: Fix a malicious redirect problem in the DNS lookup code) from Linus'

Re: linux-next: manual merge of the workqueues tree with the Linus' tree

2010-07-23 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Tejun, On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:28:21 +0200 Tejun Heo t...@kernel.org wrote: Yes, one failure case is removed, so that would be correct. Thanks for the confirmation. This should probably be fixed in the workqueues tree before it is merged upstream. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell

Re: linux-next: manual merge of the workqueues tree with the Linus' tree

2010-07-23 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, On 07/23/2010 01:31 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote: Yes, one failure case is removed, so that would be correct. Thanks for the confirmation. This should probably be fixed in the workqueues tree before it is merged upstream. I was thinking about sending pull request w/ a note describing

Re: linux-next: manual merge of the workqueues tree with the Linus' tree

2010-07-23 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Tejun, On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:34:55 +0200 Tejun Heo t...@kernel.org wrote: I was thinking about sending pull request w/ a note describing how to resolve the conflict. Would pulling in master before requesting pull be better? Either would work. Linus is fine with doing merge fixups and,

Re: linux-next: manual merge of the workqueues tree with the Linus' tree

2010-07-23 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, On 07/23/2010 01:42 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote: On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:34:55 +0200 Tejun Heo t...@kernel.org wrote: I was thinking about sending pull request w/ a note describing how to resolve the conflict. Would pulling in master before requesting pull be better? Either would

Re: linux-next: manual merge of the workqueues tree with the Linus' tree

2010-07-23 Thread David Howells
Stephen Rothwell s...@canb.auug.org.au wrote: Today's linux-next merge of the workqueues tree got a conflict in fs/cifs/cifsfs.c between commit 4c0c03ca54f72fdd5912516ad0a23ec5cf01bda7 (CIFS: Fix a malicious redirect problem in the DNS lookup code) from Linus' tree and commit

Re: [PATCH 00/09] cifs: local caching support using FS-Cache

2010-07-23 Thread Steve French
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Suresh Jayaraman sjayara...@suse.de wrote: On 07/22/2010 11:10 PM, David Howells wrote: Suresh Jayaraman sjayara...@suse.de wrote: As it can been seen, the performance while reading when data is cache hot (disk) is not great as the network link is a Gigabit

[PATCH 1/6] Add a dentry op to handle automounting rather than abusing follow_link() [ver #2]

2010-07-23 Thread David Howells
Here's an updated patch that: (1) Fixes a bug in error handling (needs to use path_put_conditional not path_put). (2) Absorbs autofs4's decisions about whether to automount or not. This means that colour-ls won't cause automounts unless -L is supplied or it doesn't get a

[PATCH 6/6] Add an AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT flag to suppress terminal automount [ver #2]

2010-07-23 Thread David Howells
This is an update required because the first patch in the series was also altered in the same area. David --- From: David Howells dhowe...@redhat.com Subject: [PATCH] Add an AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT flag to suppress terminal automount Add an AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT flag to suppress terminal automounting of

Re: panic at umount in fscache code

2010-07-23 Thread Suresh Jayaraman
On 07/23/2010 07:22 PM, Jeff Layton wrote: I built a kernel based on Steve's tree, enabled the fscache option and got the following panic at umount. I didn't mount with -o fsc or anything. I have some other patches on top of Steve's tree, but I'm fairly certain they wouldn't affect this.

Re: panic at umount in fscache code

2010-07-23 Thread Jeff Layton
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:56:05 +0530 Suresh Jayaraman sjayara...@suse.de wrote: On 07/23/2010 07:22 PM, Jeff Layton wrote: I built a kernel based on Steve's tree, enabled the fscache option and got the following panic at umount. I didn't mount with -o fsc or anything. I have some other

Re: [PATCH 00/09] cifs: local caching support using FS-Cache

2010-07-23 Thread Suresh Jayaraman
On 07/23/2010 02:05 PM, Stef Bon wrote: In my opinion there should be article published about this, describing fs-cache generally, and these kinds of benchmarks! FS-Cache is nicely documented on Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.txt present in the kernel source. IIRC, LWN -

Re: [PATCH 6/6] cifs: add separate cred_uid field to sesInfo

2010-07-23 Thread Jeff Layton
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:24:46 -0500 Steve French smfre...@gmail.com wrote: I merged the first 5 of this series, but wanted to understand what behavior this changes first (it is probably ok). With current userspace code - what changes would a user see with this? Hi Steve, Haven't heard from

Re: [PATCH 6/6] cifs: add separate cred_uid field to sesInfo

2010-07-23 Thread Jeff Layton
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:18:19 -0400 Jeff Layton jlay...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:19:36 -0400 Jeff Layton jlay...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:24:46 -0500 Steve French smfre...@gmail.com wrote: I merged the first 5 of this series, but wanted to understand