Re: Hot topics for the next release

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On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 15:58 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 10:21 -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> > NFS Support
> 
> This is basically ready. All you need in btrfs is the two patches from
> Balaji Rao, which I've updated to apply to the 0.16 and put in
> git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/btrfs-kernel-unstable.git (along with a
> build fix for 2.6.27-rc2, which is also below).
> 
> The rest of it is a generic problem with NFSD, for which the (current)
> fix is at git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/nfsexport-2.6.git
> 
> You could perhaps copy the readdir hack into btrfs code for use with
> obsolete kernels -- but to be honest I'd be inclined to leave that for
> the masochists^Wenterprise folks.
> 

We do need the readdir hack, being able to test on older kernels (say
2.6.26) is a big part of attracting and keeping btrfs testers.

Thanks for the trylock_page, I'll toss it in.

-chris


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