linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] f2fs for 4.8

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jul 2016 14:24:21 -0700
From:	Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux FS Dev Mailing List <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux F2FS Dev Mailing List 
	<linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] f2fs for 4.8

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 01:41:01AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >  - ioctl to move a range of data between files
> 
> Please run this through the linux-api list first.  We had so many
> problem with random ioctls on random file systems in the past.  Also
> I know Samsung had an xfs (and maybe ext4?) implementation of this
> functionality in the past, so it would be extremtly useful to have
> some discussion on that.
> 
> Also didn't this just show up last week for the first time?

Since I couldn't defend its confident use cases right now, I thought f2fs'd be
good to support it in order for someone to evaluate it; I expected some
kv-stores tho.

Once getting its validation, let me take a look at other file systems to expose
it into a generic one.

Thanks,