[PATCH 04/17] xfs: drop dmapi hooks

Dave Chinner david at fromorbit.com
Tue Jun 1 23:45:14 CDT 2010


On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:07:31PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Dmapi support was never merged upstream, but we still have a lot of hooks
> bloating XFS for it, all over the fast pathes of the filesystem.
> 
> This patch drops over 700 lines of dmapi overhead.  If we'll ever get HSM
> support in mainline at least the namespace events can be done much saner
> in the VFS instead of the individual filesystem, so it's not like this
> is much help for future work.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>

Looks pretty good to me, and it runs through QA just fine.
There are still a couple of references to dmapi in comments,
but I don't think that's a big issue.

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>

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