Bug#635504: ITP: flashcache -- write back block device cache for Linux

2011-10-14 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Liang Guo, On 14.10.2011 19:45, Liang Guo wrote: > Any News on flashcache packaging yes, Dmitry and me joined a packaging team and our package is mostly ready. If you know how to build source packages please have a look to [1] and please do: git

Bug#635504: ITP: flashcache -- write back block device cache for Linux

2011-10-14 Thread Liang Guo
Hi, Arno, CC to onlyjob too, he is interesting on flashcache too. On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Arno Töll wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 27.07.2011 07:49, Liang Guo wrote: >> flashcache don't compatible with linux 3.0.0, do you have any solution for >> this?

Bug#635504: ITP: flashcache -- write back block device cache for Linux

2011-09-22 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 22.09.2011 04:38, onlyjob wrote: > Congratulations upon mentors.debian.net hardware upgrade - well done. Thanks, but unrelated :) > As you may already know upstream made number of changes, notably: > * updated documentation > * initramf

Bug#635504: ITP: flashcache -- write back block device cache for Linux

2011-09-21 Thread onlyjob
Dear Arno, Congratulations upon mentors.debian.net hardware upgrade - well done. Thank you for your patience - you needed so much of it with me. I have all my questions answered in mentor's mail list but there are many other questions regarding how co-maintainership will work for us, unless you

Bug#635504: ITP: flashcache -- write back block device cache for Linux

2011-09-20 Thread Jakub Wilk
Disclaimer: I didn't look at either of your packages. I don't even know what flashcache is about. Do we allow competition in Debian, Competition for package maintenance is a complete waste of time, both for maintainers and their sponsors. or does whoever filed ITP first, get a monopoly ov

Bug#635504: ITP: flashcache -- write back block device cache for Linux

2011-09-20 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Dmitry, On 20.09.2011 03:54, onlyjob wrote: > Well, even if this functionality might be nice to have, it is not > required and it is not in upstream. So? Have a look to other packages. Most provide convenience wrapper, patches and additions if upst

Bug#635504: ITP: flashcache -- write back block device cache for Linux

2011-09-19 Thread onlyjob
Hi Arno, Thank you very much for your feedback. Much appreciated. I well relicense files in debian/* as GPLv2+ > * You provide no mechanism to setup a flashcache volume on boot. Well, even if this functionality might be nice to have, it is not required and it is not in upstream. So it is not a f

Bug#635504: ITP: flashcache -- write back block device cache for Linux

2011-09-19 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Dmitry, On 18.09.2011 16:25, onlyjob wrote: > When you mention technical problems, I wish you could be more specific. You made some semantic errors Lintian can't detect in its purpose as static analysis tool. As I said, I didn't extensively check

Bug#635504: ITP: flashcache -- write back block device cache for Linux

2011-09-18 Thread onlyjob
Hi Arno, I am also looking at your package and I see things I could learn from you especially in regards to git. When you mention technical problems, I wish you could be more specific. I'm only making my first steps in development for Debian so I shouldn't be arrogant. However, the package I mad

Bug#635504: ITP: flashcache -- write back block device cache for Linux

2011-09-18 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18.09.2011 14:03, onlyjob wrote: > No, I wasn't aware of yours... > I reckon we've been working independently > I just completed my own... There are definitely some similarities but > also differences in the way we did it. I briefly looked at y

Bug#635504: ITP: flashcache -- write back block device cache for Linux

2011-09-18 Thread onlyjob
No, I wasn't aware of yours... I reckon we've been working independently I just completed my own... There are definitely some similarities but also differences in the way we did it. Cheers, Dmitry. On 18 September 2011 19:52, Arno Töll wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1

Bug#635504: ITP: flashcache -- write back block device cache for Linux

2011-09-18 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18.09.2011 06:21, onlyjob wrote: > Recent package from http://mentors.debian.net works on 3.0.0-1-amd64 I am aware, you can see my package on [1]. Its pretty much complete but I am not finished yet. [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-

Bug#635504: ITP: flashcache -- write back block device cache for Linux

2011-09-17 Thread onlyjob
Hi, No so long ago flashcache's master branch was updated for compatibility with Linux kernel 3.0 Recent package from http://mentors.debian.net works on 3.0.0-1-amd64 Regards, Dmitry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Bug#635504: ITP: flashcache -- write back block device cache for Linux

2011-07-27 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27.07.2011 07:49, Liang Guo wrote: > flashcache don't compatible with linux 3.0.0, do you have any solution for > this? I haven't tried it with Linux 3.0 (yet), but as flashcache is under active development and it runs fine on rather recent kernel

Bug#635504: ITP: flashcache -- write back block device cache for Linux

2011-07-26 Thread Liang Guo
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Arno Töll wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "Arno Töll" > > * Package name    : flashcache >  Version         : 1.0 >  Upstream Author : Mohan Srinivasan > * URL             : https://github.c

Bug#635504: ITP: flashcache -- write back block device cache for Linux

2011-07-26 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Arno Töll" * Package name: flashcache Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Mohan Srinivasan * URL : https://github.com/facebook/flashcache * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: