From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: XFS status update for October 2012 Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:13:28 -0500 Message-ID: <20121201001327.GA8992@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kerrnel.org Return-path: Received: from 173-166-109-252-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([173.166.109.252]:52434 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756537Ab2LAAN3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:13:29 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: October saw the merge of the XFS development tree for Linux 3.7 into mainline as well as a few additional fixes for this new work. Linux 3.7 will be a fairly boring release as far as XFS is concerned, the biggest user visible changes are an intelligent implementation of the lseek SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA calls, and finally the switch to use the inode64 allocator by default. The XFS development tree for Linux 3.8 started getting commits in October as well, most notably a large cleanup of the periodic sync code. On the user space side we saw release candidate for the next releases of the XFS tools. For xfsprogs the 3.1.9-rc1 release brings various fixes in xfs_repair, especially dealing with directories as well as various improvements in xfs_db and mkfs.xfs, three new commands for xfs_io and a few user visible fixes to xfs_quota. The xfsdump 3.1.1-rc1 release adds a German string translation and support for 32-bit project IDs. xfstests saw its usual stream of fixes, but also a new ext4-specific test case and a switch to use the util-linux version of fstrim instead of a bundled one. All user space projects saw various improvements to the build system.