From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756115Ab0GLQia (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:38:30 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:32826 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755900Ab0GLQi1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:38:27 -0400 Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:38:26 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: XFS status update for June 2010 Message-ID: <20100712163826.GA17164@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) 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 The month of June saw a few important bug fixes for the Linux 2.6.35 release candidates. That includes ensuring that files used for the swapext ioctl are writable to the user, and doing proper validation of inodes coming from untrusted sources, such as NFS exporting and the open by handle system calls. The main work however has been focused on development for the Linux 2.6.36 merge window, including merging various patches that have been out on the mainline list for a long time. Highlights include further performance improvements for sync heavy metadata workloads, stack space reduction in the writeback path and improvements of the XFS tracing infrastructure. Also after some discussion the remaining hooks for DMAPI are going to be dropped in mainline. As a replacement a tree containing full DMAPI support with a slightly cleaner XFS interaction will be hosted by SGI. On the userspace side June was a rather slow month, with no updates to xfsprogs and xfsdump at all, and just one new test case and a cleanup applied to xfstests.