Re: [RFC] remove filestreams support?

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 11:54:58AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> So rather than deprecating the functionality, perhaps we should look
> at implementing it through a simpler, more generic, better
> integrated interface? That will increase the usefulness of the
> functionality for a much wider audience than it has now, and also
> provide the virt/blk throttling folk with exactly the "don't cross
> the streams" functionality they suggest filesystems are unable to
> support easily.....

That does indeed sound simpler, and also more useful.  Do the users
who have chimed in here (and off list) think such a scheme would be
useful for them?