[Ocfs2-devel] Re: [RFC] [PATCH] OCFS2

[Paul Jackson]

James wrote:
> Any chance of splitting it out?

Responding to your post, but I guess it's really Oracle I'm asking:

On my first glance just now at the git-ocfs patch, I was surprised that
what seemed to be separable facilities were combined into one patch.  I
see a file system, a lock manager (is that what DLM stands for - please
spell out acronyms)  and a configuration file system.


+configfs/
+       - directory containing configfs documentation and example code.
  ...
+dlmfs.txt
+       - info on the userspace interface to the OCFS2 DLM.
  ...
+ocfs2.txt
+       - info and mount options for the OCFS2 clustered filesystem.


These combine to make a 45 thousand line patch.  That's a big patch.
Only the netdev and reiser4 patches (and the combined linus.patch)
are bigger.

Shouldn't these be 3 patches, or more?

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