# \[PATCH\] netfs: Add MAINTAINERS record - Subsystems: THE REST - Maintainers: Linus Torvalds - Status: REVIEWED ยท 1 review, 1 by a maintainer (M Jeff Layton) - Reviewed. - 1 review trailer. - List: linux-nfs - 3 messages, 3 authors - Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-nfs/2021/07/209607/t ## \[PATCH\] netfs: Add MAINTAINERS record - From: David Howells \ - Date: 2021-07-12 12:26:47 - Message: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-nfs/2021/07/209607.md ```text Add a MAINTAINERS record for the new netfs helper library. Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: Jeff Layton cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) cc: cc: cc: cc: cc: cc: cc: cc: Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/162377165897.729347.292567369593752239.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/162377519404.734878.4912821418522385423.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1 --- MAINTAINERS | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index a61f4f3b78a9..2fd13803cd06 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -13050,6 +13050,15 @@ NETWORKING [WIRELESS] L: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Q: http://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ +NETWORK FILESYSTEM HELPER LIBRARY +M: David Howells +M: Jeff Layton +L: linux-cachefs@redhat.com (moderated for non-subscribers) +S: Supported +F: Documentation/filesystems/netfs_library.rst +F: fs/netfs/ +F: include/linux/netfs.h + NETXEN (1/10) GbE SUPPORT M: Manish Chopra M: Rahul Verma ``` ## Re: \[PATCH\] netfs: Add MAINTAINERS record - From: Christoph Hellwig \ - Date: 2021-07-13 05:44:42 - Message: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-nfs/2021/07/209751.md ```text On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 01:26:32PM +0100, David Howells wrote: > Add a MAINTAINERS record for the new netfs helper library. Btw, any reason why this code is called netfs? It is a library that seems to mostly be glue code for fscache as far as I can tell and has nothing to do with networking at all. ``` ## Re: \[PATCH\] netfs: Add MAINTAINERS record - From: Jeff Layton \ - Date: 2021-07-13 11:54:40 - Message: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-nfs/2021/07/209806.md ```text On Tue, 2021-07-13 at 06:44 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 01:26:32PM +0100, David Howells wrote: > > Add a MAINTAINERS record for the new netfs helper library. > > Btw, any reason why this code is called netfs? It is a library > that seems to mostly be glue code for fscache as far as I can tell and > has nothing to do with networking at all. It's infrastructure for network filesystems. The original impetus was hooking up fscache, though the helper code also works with fscache disabled. We also have some work in progress to plumb in fscrypt support, and David is also looking at adding writepage/writepages support too. readpage/readpages/writepage/writepages operations in network filesystems are quite "fiddly", and they all do it in subtly different ways (and not always for good reasons). The new read helper infrastructure abstracts a lot of that away, and gives netfs's a simpler set of operations to deal with. We're hoping to do the same with writepage/writepages helpers soon. -- Jeff Layton [ref] ```