From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id oBLNpNs8118493 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:51:23 -0600 Received: from mail.internode.on.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 07BB721533D for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:53:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.internode.on.net (bld-mail19.adl2.internode.on.net [150.101.137.104]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id NyxwrBI9wsuRD0Yy for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:53:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:53:01 +1100 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: XFS status update for November 2010 Message-ID: <20101221235301.GD4907@dastard> References: <20101220180013.GA16283@infradead.org> <4D109047.8050300@panasas.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D109047.8050300@panasas.com> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Boaz Harrosh Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.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 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs