From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:00:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from larry.melbourne.sgi.com (larry.melbourne.sgi.com [134.14.52.130]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with SMTP id lADL0LfD008145 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:00:26 -0800 Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:00:18 +1100 From: David Chinner Subject: Re: porting xfs_reno to linux Message-ID: <20071113210018.GX995458@sgi.com> References: <4739EB0B.6030407@linworks.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4739EB0B.6030407@linworks.de> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Ruben Porras Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com 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