Re: [PATCH 00/10] cifs: implement proper hardlink

[Steve French-2]

Reviewed, test built, and merged patches 1, 2, 5 and 8 so far.   Asked
Shirish to review patches 3 and 4 since he had written code in that
area, but looks fine so far.  Added a patch to update fs/cifs/README
(need to update man page too) and CHANGES.    Haven't had time to
review the others carefully yet.

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[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:15:19AM -0500, Steve French wrote:
> Reviewed, test built, and merged patches 1, 2, 5 and 8 so far.   Asked
> Shirish to review patches 3 and 4 since he had written code in that
> area, but looks fine so far.  Added a patch to update fs/cifs/README
> (need to update man page too) and CHANGES.    Haven't had time to
> review the others carefully yet.

It's been about a month now, any progress?
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[Steve French-2]

Since getting back from vacation have reviewed and merged about 1/2 of
the backlog.   These are next, but also would like to run a few more
tests on them since they may affect performance.

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Christoph Hellwig<hch@...> wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:15:19AM -0500, Steve French wrote:
>> Reviewed, test built, and merged patches 1, 2, 5 and 8 so far.   Asked
>> Shirish to review patches 3 and 4 since he had written code in that
>> area, but looks fine so far.  Added a patch to update fs/cifs/README
>> (need to update man page too) and CHANGES.    Haven't had time to
>> review the others carefully yet.
>
> It's been about a month now, any progress?
>



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[Steve French-2]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Steve French<smfrench@...> wrote:
> Since getting back from vacation have reviewed and merged about 1/2 of
> the backlog.   These are next, but also would like to run a few more
> tests on them since they may affect performance.

On a loosely related topic to cifs inode handling ...
During the week of testing in Redmond earlier in the month, we had a
long discussion about the best way to handle caching/oplock.  It looks
like requesting "batch" oplock first (which allows you to defer
close operations) may be preferable, but doing this would require changing
the cifs destroy inode routine to send SMB close (would the vfs allow
the free inode routine to block?) and would allow us to use the same
network file handle for multiple opens in some case which would
greatly improve performance.



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