On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 09:26:43AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
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> > Actually both interfaces are a fscking disaster.  The right things to
> > pass is neither and inode nor a file but a struct block_device.  Al had
> > all this work done a while and it just needs rebasing to a current tree:
> > 
> > 	http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/viro/bdev.git;a=summary
> 
> Completely agreed. Al, I remember talking to you about this at the
> storage summit back in february. What are your current plans wrt moving
> this forward?

Rebased, with nfs parts of fmode_t patch taken out (irrelevant for
bdev anyway and really better off in intent-killing queue).  Other
than that, it's a straight port...  Same place, same branch.
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