Re: Ok, making ready for pre-2.4 and code-freeze..

Alan Cox (alan@redhat.com)
Tue, 14 Dec 1999 21:49:57 -0500 (EST)


> For less critical stuff (== near post-2.4.0):
> ->fhandle_to_dentry() (maybe it will go before the 2.4)

That one is pretty critical for NFS

> cleaning up remnants of dcache abuse in knfsd _and_ NFS.
> taking silly-rename mechanism into VFS (and smbfs might _really_
> win from that - currently its unlink() and rename() are totally broken wrt
> opened files)
> threading dcache (with the symlinks stuff done we are down to more
> or less reasonable amount of lookup_dentry() calls so tweaking that area
> will be bearable. And we'll need it).

Add isofs breaks on DVD (it has a 4Gig byte wrap problem on bigger disks)

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