From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756263Ab0BJSIy (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:08:54 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:53848 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755589Ab0BJSIw (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:08:52 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:08:51 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: XFS status update for January 2010 Message-ID: <20100210180851.GA9854@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 January saw additional release candidates of the Linux 2.6.33 kernel, including a couple of bug fixes for XFS. In the meantime the XFS tree has been growing a large number of patches destined for the Linux 2.6.34 merge window: a large rework of the handling of per-AG data, support for the quota netlink interface, and better power saving behavior of the XFS kernel threads, and of course various cleanups. A large patch series to replace the current asynchronous inode writeback with a new scheme that uses the delayed write buffers was posted to the list. The new scheme, which allows archive better I/O locality by dispatching meta-data I/O from a single place has been discussed extensively and is expected to be merged in February. On the userspace side January saw the 3.1.0 and 3.1.1 releases of xfsprogs, as well as the 3.0.4 release of xfsdump. The biggest changes in xfsprogs 3.1.0 were optimizations in xfs_repair that lead to a much lower memory usage, and optional use of the blkid library for filesystem detection and retrieving storage topology information. The 3.1.1 release contained various important bug fixes for these changes and a various improvements to the build system. The major feature of xfsdump 3.0.4 were fixes for time stamp handling on 64-bit systems. The xfstests package also lots of activity including various new testcases and an improved build system.