Moving ahead: Plans for 3.0.23 and 3.0.24

[Matthew Mastracci]

Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Matthew Mastracci wrote:
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>> Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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>>> simo wrote:
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>>>> I think I would like to see inotify, CIFS posix extensions (locking)
>>>> and Idmap in 3.0.24. I do not see as compelling
>>>> to hold 3.0.24 for the cluster work, but we
>>>> can merge it in if it is ready by the release date of course.
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>>> If everything else was ready, I would hold 3.0.24 for a week
>>> or two at most to get the cluster out there.  But only if
>>> there was no performance issues with the single node
>>> configuration.  I agree that if it looks like the cluster
>>> work will still take more time, we should not postpone
>>> 3.0.24 for it.
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>> Gerry,
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>> Does the external IDMAP backend I posted here a while back 
>> still look like it might make it in, or has some of
>> the alternate IDMAP backend discussion derailed it a bit?  I
>> can update the patch if needed.
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> I think that we'll probably have to rework it some.  I
> very much want to see the patch in the tree and will
> probably spend some time with it while doing the redesign.
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> Stay tuned and I'll keep posting progress to the ml.
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Cool, thanks for the update.