Request for pulling exofs for 2.6.30

which is available in the git repository at:

git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd.git for-linus

Boaz Harrosh (9):
exofs: Kbuild, Headers and osd utils
exofs: file and file_inode operations
exofs: symlink_inode and fast_symlink_inode operations
exofs: address_space_operations
exofs: dir_inode and directory operations
exofs: super_operations and file_system_type
exofs: export_operations
exofs: Documentation
fs: Add exofs to Kernel build

The filesystem code was reviewed on linux-fsdevel, linux-scsi and linux-kernel Mailing lists. They went through 7 cycles of reviews, until comments stopped.

The exofs tree above was in linux-next since 2.6.29-rc1

All the pre-requisites for this code have been accepted upstream through scsi-misc tree. That is the open-osd osd_initiator library.

There is also a user mode osd-api and exofs user-mode mount and mkfs.exofs utilities. They are all fully GPLed projects.

The project is hosted on a dedicated server at http://open-osd.org
There's a modest Wiki and an active mailing lists. There are a few users mostly students that use osd for their personal projects, and one main user, Panasas which I work for.

At one of the mails Andrew Morton suggested you might want to pull the git-tree directly, instead of him pushing it through his tree?

Please tell me if you need any more information in order to formulate an opinion.

Statistics:

 Documentation/filesystems/exofs.txt |  176 +++++
 fs/Kconfig                          |    2 +
 fs/Makefile                         |    1 +
 fs/exofs/BUGS                       |    3 +
 fs/exofs/Kbuild                     |   16 +
 fs/exofs/Kconfig                    |   13 +
 fs/exofs/common.h                   |  184 +++++
 fs/exofs/dir.c                      |  672 ++++++++++++++++++
 fs/exofs/exofs.h                    |  180 +++++
 fs/exofs/file.c                     |   87 +++
 fs/exofs/inode.c                    | 1303 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 fs/exofs/namei.c                    |  342 +++++++++
 fs/exofs/osd.c                      |  153 ++++
 fs/exofs/super.c                    |  584 ++++++++++++++++
 fs/exofs/symlink.c                  |   57 ++
 15 files changed, 3773 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/filesystems/exofs.txt
 create mode 100644 fs/exofs/BUGS
 create mode 100644 fs/exofs/Kbuild
 create mode 100644 fs/exofs/Kconfig
 create mode 100644 fs/exofs/common.h
 create mode 100644 fs/exofs/dir.c
 create mode 100644 fs/exofs/exofs.h
 create mode 100644 fs/exofs/file.c
 create mode 100644 fs/exofs/inode.c
 create mode 100644 fs/exofs/namei.c
 create mode 100644 fs/exofs/osd.c
 create mode 100644 fs/exofs/super.c
 create mode 100644 fs/exofs/symlink.c

Thank you very much in advance
Boaz

For what little weight I have in this area... ACK

But I would suggest _not_ splitting up the add-filesystem patch. You really only want to split up this stuff for review.

The add-exofs change is one single logical change, and splitting it up across multiple changesets is not the most optimal nor bisect-safe approach.

Jeff