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List:       linux-nfs
Subject:    Re: [RFC 5/4] NFSD: Add basic CB_OFFLOAD support
From:       Christoph Hellwig <hch () infradead ! org>
Date:       2013-10-29 15:11:53
Message-ID: 20131029151153.GA26603 () infradead ! org
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On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 09:53:21AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> Your complaint as I understand it is that quick and long-running
> operations were combined into one one operation when they would have
> better been separated. I agree.

Not just quick and long running but semantically different -
preallocating space and writing zeroes over every byte are fundamentally
different operations.

> But I also don't understand why the long-running operations need an
> async option.  Maybe they do, I just don't understand why.

I didn't even bother questioning that, but it's not a bad question
either.

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