[GIT PULL] fscache rewrite -- please drop for now
David Howells
dhowells at redhat.com
Thu Aug 27 11:28:55 EDT 2020
Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de> wrote:
> FYI, a giant rewrite dropping support for existing consumer is always
> rather awkward. Is there any way you could pre-stage some infrastructure
> changes, and then do a temporary fscache2, which could then be renamed
> back to fscache once everyone switched over?
That's a bit tricky. There are three points that would have to be shared: the
userspace miscdev interface, the backing filesystem and the single index tree.
It's probably easier to just have a go at converting 9P and cifs. Making the
old and new APIs share would be a fairly hefty undertaking in its own right.
David
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