From: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
To: Ruben Porras <ruben.porras@linworks.de>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: porting xfs_reno to linux
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:00:18 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071113210018.GX995458@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4739EB0B.6030407@linworks.de>
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 07:20:59PM +0100, Ruben Porras wrote:
> Let's go back to the shrink xfs theme.
>
> >2. Move inodes out of offline AGs
> > - On Irix, we have a program called 'xfs_reno' which
> > converts 64 bit inode filesystems to 32 bit inode
> > filesystems. This needs to be:
> > - released under the GPL (should not be a problem).
>
> done
>
> > - ported to linux
>
> Do you mean, rewrite the program to work on kernel space,
No.
> or just port it
> to glibc?
Port to linux. i.e. make it work and remove any tainted code that it
might contain from Irix so we can open source it. Barry has
already done this; the patch is here:
http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2007-10/msg00054.html
All it needs is reviewing and then xfs_reno for linux is done.
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
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2007-11-13 18:20 porting xfs_reno to linux Ruben Porras
2007-11-13 21:00 ` David Chinner [this message]
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