From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753786AbYKFQFD (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2008 11:05:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751703AbYKFQEx (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2008 11:04:53 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:57576 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750793AbYKFQEx (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2008 11:04:53 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 11:04:52 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig To: xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: XFS status update for October 2008 Message-ID: <20081106160452.GA28042@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linux 2.6.27 released with all the bits covered in last month's report. It did however miss two important fixes for regressions that a few people hit. 2.6.27.3 or later are recommended for use with XFS. In the meantime the generic btree implementation, the sync reorganization and after a lot of merge pain the XFS and VFS inode unification hit the development tree during the time allocated for the merge window. No XFS updates other than the two regression fixes also in 2.6.27.3 have made it into mainline as of 2.6.28-rc3. The only new feature on the list in October is support for the fiemap interface that has been added to the VFS during the 2.6.28 merge window. However there was lot of patch traffic consisting of fixes and respun versions of previously known patches. There still is a large backlog of patches on the list that is not applied to the development tree yet.