[OpenAFS-devel] Alternate file systems for disk cache

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

--On Thursday, October 21, 2010 11:37:12 AM -0400 "Charles M. Hannum"=20
<root@ihack.net> wrote:

> Unfortunately, this is still relevant, since distros are still on 1.4.  I
> personally need it to work with JFS.  But now it's unclear just how much
> work it's worth putting into it=E2=80=94add JFS, add all the file systems =
which
> =E2=80=9Cjust work=E2=80=9D, backport the whole mess?

Marc is right; backporting the export_fh approach would be far too large=20
and invasive a change for 1.4, which is supposed to be a stable release=20
series and, at this point in its life cycle, _very_ stable.  Updating the=20
checks to permit all of the filesystems which already just work would seem=20
to be an acceptable change.

-- Jeff