[Linux-cachefs] Re: [PATCH 0/7] Permit filesystem local caching and NFS superblock sharing [try #13]

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:37:18 +0100
David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com> wrote:

> Andrew Morton <akpm at osdl.org> wrote:
> 
> > > These patches add local caching for network filesystems such as NFS and AFS.
> > 
> > <fercrissake>
> > 
> > Not interested.  Please go learn quilt, send incremental patches.
> 
> What's quilt able to do that StGIT can't?  AFAICT from quilt's manpage, it
> can't mail incremental patches, so how does it help anyway?
> 

It was just a suggestion.  Please:

- test the patches which are presently in -mm.  I don't even know if they
  work, and we prefer to send Linus working stuff.

- Send fine-grained incremental patches.  It's OK to do complete
  replacement patchsets when the code is new, but this stuff is supposed to
  be stabilised.

  It took me quite a lot of time to extract the incremental patches out
  of try#12 and I don't want to do it again, plus it's just another step in
  which errors can be introduced.

Why incremental patches?

- So we can see what changed and don't have to re-review the whole thing

- So the recipient doesn't have to re-fix the same pile of rejects each time.

- So fixes which came in via other sources don't get lost.