[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH v6 00/28] fs: fixes for serious clone/dedupe problems

Al Viro viro at ZenIV.linux.org.uk
Sun Oct 21 21:52:49 PDT 2018


On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 03:37:41PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:

> Ok, this is a bit of a mess. the patches do not merge cleanly to a
> 4.19-rc1 base kernel because of all the changes to
> include/linux/fs.h that have hit the tree after this. There's also
> failures against Documentation/filesystems/fs.h
> 
> IOWs, it's not going to get merged through the main XFS tree because
> I don't have the patience to resolve all the patch application
> failures, then when it comes to merge make sure all the merge
> failures end up being resolved correctly.
> 
> So if I take it through the XFS tree, it will being a standalone
> branch based on 4.19-rc8 and won't hit linux-next until after the
> first XFS merge when I can rebase the for-next branch...

How many conflicts does it have with XFS tree?  I can take it via
vfs.git...



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