Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Whither XFS? (was: Congrats Marcelo) | From | Steve Lord <> | Date | 26 Feb 2002 17:39:48 -0600 |
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On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 18:28, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > > o Posix ACL support > > Are you able to leverage the new EA interface? (Which I still don't like > because of the namespace syntax embedded in the attribute names, btw, > please don't misinterpret silence as happiness.)
Where do you think the interface originated? A lot of time was spent working on this and getting the ext2 and xfs code bases in sync.
> > > o The ability to do online filesystem dumps which are coherent with > > the system call interface > > It would be nice if some other filesystems could share that mechanism, do > you think it's feasible? If not, what's the stumbling block? I haven't > looked at this for some time and there's was some furious work going on > exactly there just before 2.5. It seems we've at least progressed a > little from the viewpoint that nobody would want that.
Not really, there are some hooks into XFS which are probably totally non-trivial for other filesystems.
> > > o delayed allocation of file data > > Andrew Morton is working on generic delayed allocation at the vfs level I > believe, why not bang heads with him and see if it can be made to work with > VFS?
Already talked at the end of last week, got majorly sidetracked again this week. This is definitely something I would like to be able to leverage for XFS.
> > > o DMAPI > > It would be nice to have unsucky file events. But there's been roughly zero > discussion of dmapi on lkml as far as I can see.
Yep, and its not my strong suite. The previous attempt at an implementation by someone else appears to have died a death.
> > > As it is we did all of these, and we seem to have half the Linux NAS > > vendors in the world building xfs into their boxes. > > True enough.
Now if only we could make some money out of them ;-)
Steve
> > -- > Daniel --
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