From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752414AbZIICOw (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 22:14:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751445AbZIICOv (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 22:14:51 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:58556 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750721AbZIICOv (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 22:14:51 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 22:14:53 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: XFS status update for August 2009 Message-ID: <20090909021453.GA24173@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) 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 August the Linux 2.6.31 kernel has still been in the release candidate stage, but a couple of important XFS fixes made it in time for the release, including a fix for the inode cache races with NFS workloads that have plagued us for a long time. The list saw various patches destined for the Linux 2.6.32 merge window, including a merge of the fsync and O_SYNC handling code to address various issues with the latter, a workaround for deficits in the timestamp handling interface between the VFS and filesystems, a repost of the sync improvements patch series and various smaller patches. August also saw the minor 3.0.3 release of xfsprogs which collects smaller fixes to the various tools and most importantly a fix to allow xfsprogs to work again on SPARC and other strict alignment handling which regressed a few releases ago. The xfstests repository saw a few new test cases and a various small improvements.