[Linux-cachefs] Re: [PATCH 0/7] Permit filesystem local caching and NFS superblock sharing [try #13]
Andrew Morton
akpm at osdl.org
Wed Aug 30 20:55:03 UTC 2006
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:37:18 +0100
David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com> wrote:
> Andrew Morton <akpm at osdl.org> wrote:
>
> > > These patches add local caching for network filesystems such as NFS and AFS.
> >
> > <fercrissake>
> >
> > Not interested. Please go learn quilt, send incremental patches.
>
> What's quilt able to do that StGIT can't? AFAICT from quilt's manpage, it
> can't mail incremental patches, so how does it help anyway?
>
It was just a suggestion. Please:
- test the patches which are presently in -mm. I don't even know if they
work, and we prefer to send Linus working stuff.
- Send fine-grained incremental patches. It's OK to do complete
replacement patchsets when the code is new, but this stuff is supposed to
be stabilised.
It took me quite a lot of time to extract the incremental patches out
of try#12 and I don't want to do it again, plus it's just another step in
which errors can be introduced.
Why incremental patches?
- So we can see what changed and don't have to re-review the whole thing
- So the recipient doesn't have to re-fix the same pile of rejects each time.
- So fixes which came in via other sources don't get lost.
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