Re: [PATCH 00/64] fscache, cachefiles: Rewrite

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Nov 29 2021 - 17:39:27 EST


On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 6:22 AM David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The patchset is structured such that the first few patches disable fscache
> use by the network filesystems using it, remove the cachefiles driver
> entirely and as much of the fscache driver as can be got away with without
> causing build failures in the network filesystems. The patches after that
> recreate fscache and then cachefiles, attempting to add the pieces in a
> logical order. Finally, the filesystems are reenabled and then the very
> last patch changes the documentation.

Thanks, this all looks conceptually sane to me.

But I only really scanned the commit messages, not the actual new
code. That obviously needs all the usual testing and feedback from the
users of this all..

Linus