Re: [NFS] [PATCH] locks: provide a file lease method enabling cluster-coherent leases

2007-06-07 Thread Robert Rappaport
My interpretation of the preceeding is that there is agreement that the functionality currently implemented in __setlease() should be exported, even though the exported name may not be __setlease(). Is this correct? If so, that is just fine with me. The question that I have now is when do you

[PATCH] NFS: Make NFS root work again

2007-06-07 Thread David Howells
Make NFS root work by creating a /root directory to satisfy the mount, otherwise the path lookup for the mount fails with ENOENT. Signed-off-by: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- init/do_mounts.c |5 - 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/init/do_mounts.c

Re: [PATCH] CIFS should honour umask

2007-06-07 Thread Steve French
For the non-unix case (e.g. Windows servers) the mode will be taken from the default specified on the mount. I am not sure if we also should add code to also honor umask in that case. I am not sure how common it is to change umask to different values in different processes which would access the

Re: [NFS] [PATCH] locks: provide a file lease method enabling cluster-coherent leases

2007-06-07 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 10:43:51AM -0400, Robert Rappaport wrote: My interpretation of the preceeding is that there is agreement that the functionality currently implemented in __setlease() should be exported, even though the exported name may not be __setlease(). Is this correct? Yes. If

Re: [PATCH] CIFS should honour umask

2007-06-07 Thread Matt Keenan
Steve French wrote: For the non-unix case (e.g. Windows servers) the mode will be taken from the default specified on the mount. I am not sure if we also should add code to also honor umask in that case. I don't think it would be necessary to add code for the windows case, we should just rely

Re: [PATCH] NFS: Make NFS root work again

2007-06-07 Thread Peter Staubach
David Howells wrote: Make NFS root work by creating a /root directory to satisfy the mount, otherwise the path lookup for the mount fails with ENOENT. Signed-off-by: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- init/do_mounts.c |5 - 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git

Re: [PATCH] NFS: Make NFS root work again

2007-06-07 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:40:03 +0100 David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make NFS root work by creating a /root directory to satisfy the mount, otherwise the path lookup for the mount fails with ENOENT. What did we do to make it stop working, and when did we do it?? diff --git

Re: Is having binary prefix something looked at in ext4?

2007-06-07 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jun 8 2007 02:09, shirish wrote: Hi all, Is Binary prefix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix something that could be incorporated in the next release. This would make all the files report much more accurate file sizes than now. What does this have to do with ext4? And

Re: Is having binary prefix something looked at in ext4?

2007-06-07 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jun 8 2007 07:57, shirish wrote: On 6/8/07, Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 8 2007 02:09, shirish wrote: Is Binary prefix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix something that could be incorporated in the next release. This would make all the files report