From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760416AbZFIMe3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jun 2009 08:34:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752208AbZFIMeU (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jun 2009 08:34:20 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:56725 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752173AbZFIMeT (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jun 2009 08:34:19 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 08:34:21 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: XFS status update for May 2009 Message-ID: <20090609123421.GA15623@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 In May Linux 2.6.30 was getting close to be released, and various important XFS fixes made it during the latest release candidates. In the meantime some big patch series to rework the sync code and the inode allocator have been posted for the next merge window. On the userspace side xfsprogs and xfsdump 3.0.1 were finally released, quickly followed by 3.0.2 releases with updated Debian packaging. After that various small patches that were held back made it into xfsprogs. A patch to add the xfs_reno tool which allows to move inodes around to fit into 32 bit inode number space has been posted which is also one central aspect of future online shrinking support. There has been major activity on xfstests including adding generic filesystems support to allow running tests that aren't XFS-specific on any Linux filesystems.