From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS status update for November 2010
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:53:01 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101221235301.GD4907@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D109047.8050300@panasas.com>
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 01:32:23PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> On 12/20/2010 08:00 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >>From looking at the kernel git commits November looked like a pretty
> > slow month with just two hand full fixes going into the release candidates
> > for Linux 2.6.37, and none at all going into the development tree.
> > But in this case git statistics didn't tell the whole story - there
> > was a lot of activity on patches for the next merge window on the list.
> > The focus in November was still at metadata scalability, with various
> > patchsets that improves parallel creates and unlinks again, and also
> > improves 8-way dbench throughput by 30%. In addition to that there
> > were patches to improve preallocation for NFS servers, to simplify
> > the writeback code, and to remove the XFS-internal percpu counters
> > for free space for the generic kernel percpu counters, which just needed
> > a small improvement.
> >
> > On the user space side we saw the release of xfsprogs 3.1.4, which
> > contains various accumulated bug fixes and Debian packaging updates.
> > The xfsdump tree saw a large update to speed up restore by using
> > mmap for an internal database and remove the limitation of ~ 214
> > million directory entries per dump file. The xfstests test suite
> > saw three new testcases and various fixes, including support for the
> > hfsplus filesystem.
>
> Hi Christoph, happy holidays
>
> I love these reports you do, thank you
>
> I have one small request, could you please post them to
> linux-fsdevel as well. linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org is so crowded
> I keep missing them.
Boaz, you can set up a modification watch on this page:
http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_Status_Updates
as Christoph posts the updates there as well.
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: XFS status update for November 2010
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:53:01 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101221235301.GD4907@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D109047.8050300@panasas.com>
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 01:32:23PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> On 12/20/2010 08:00 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >>From looking at the kernel git commits November looked like a pretty
> > slow month with just two hand full fixes going into the release candidates
> > for Linux 2.6.37, and none at all going into the development tree.
> > But in this case git statistics didn't tell the whole story - there
> > was a lot of activity on patches for the next merge window on the list.
> > The focus in November was still at metadata scalability, with various
> > patchsets that improves parallel creates and unlinks again, and also
> > improves 8-way dbench throughput by 30%. In addition to that there
> > were patches to improve preallocation for NFS servers, to simplify
> > the writeback code, and to remove the XFS-internal percpu counters
> > for free space for the generic kernel percpu counters, which just needed
> > a small improvement.
> >
> > On the user space side we saw the release of xfsprogs 3.1.4, which
> > contains various accumulated bug fixes and Debian packaging updates.
> > The xfsdump tree saw a large update to speed up restore by using
> > mmap for an internal database and remove the limitation of ~ 214
> > million directory entries per dump file. The xfstests test suite
> > saw three new testcases and various fixes, including support for the
> > hfsplus filesystem.
>
> Hi Christoph, happy holidays
>
> I love these reports you do, thank you
>
> I have one small request, could you please post them to
> linux-fsdevel as well. linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org is so crowded
> I keep missing them.
Boaz, you can set up a modification watch on this page:
http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_Status_Updates
as Christoph posts the updates there as well.
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-21 23:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-20 18:00 XFS status update for November 2010 Christoph Hellwig
2010-12-20 18:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-12-21 11:32 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-12-21 11:32 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-12-21 23:53 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2010-12-21 23:53 ` Dave Chinner
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