Re: [PATCH V11 0/9] famfs: port into fuse

(Replying shortly as we are starting now on a two week journey.  Won't
read email during this time).

On Fri, 24 Jul 2026 at 22:23, Joanne Koong <[email protected]> wrote:

> imo these changes seem doable for making the 7.3 merge window. I'm not
> sure how much bandwidth John has though. Maybe one idea that could
> work if John is completely slammed for time right now is having the
> changes requested above be a separate followup series someone else can
> do and then this current series (after the sashiko fixes) and that
> series can get landed together in the same merge window.

I'm all for it.


>
> >
> > Maybe the striping setup can also be done with a notification.  The
>
> I had interpreted the FUSE_DEV_IOC_STRIPE_OPEN patch as implying that
> the mapping gets forwarded to the kernel through the backing id in the
> open() reply, which I think is how Amir had also interpreted it. I
> didn't like that the striping mappings got sent through an ioctl while
> the simple mappings didn't, but I think maybe the patch was not trying
> to suggest that and I had interpreted it too literally. I like the
> striping setup through an ioctl - I think it makes sense given that it
> is connection-level instead of inode-level.

Yeah, the striping setup is on a different level (like we have with
regular filesystems).  So I think it's not that bad that the setup is
different.

Thanks,
Miklos