linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] Support negative dentries on case-insensitive ext4 and f2fs

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Date:   Thu, 27 Jul 2023 14:13:39 -0400
From:   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...e.de>
Cc:     viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, brauner@...nel.org, ebiggers@...nel.org,
        jaegeuk@...nel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] Support negative dentries on case-insensitive
 ext4 and f2fs

On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 01:28:36PM -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> This is the v4 of the negative dentry support on case-insensitive
> directories.  It doesn't have any functional changes from v1. It applies
> Eric's comments to bring the flags check closet together, improve the
> documentation and improve comments in the code.  I also relooked at the
> locks to ensure the inode read lock is indeed enough in the lookup_slow
> path.

Al, Christian, any thoughts or preferences for how we should handle
this patch series?  I'm willing to take it through the ext4 tree, but
since it has vfs, ext4, and f2fs changes (and the bulk of the changes
are in the vfs), perhaps it should go through the vfs tree?

Also, Christian, I notice one of the five VFS patches in the series
has your Reviewed-by tag, but not the others?  Is that because you
haven't had a chance to make a final determination on those patches,
or you have outstanding comments still to be addressed?

Cheers,

					- Ted