[PATCH 1/2 v2] xfs: drop dmapi hooks
Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com
Wed May 26 01:12:26 CDT 2010
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 05:45:24AM -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 good to me.
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david at fromorbit.com>
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Dave Chinner
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