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From: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] xfs: defrag support for v5 filesystems
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:51:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130910175137.GT1935@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1377822225-17621-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:23:43AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> The following 2 patches implement the BMBT owner change transaction
> that is necessary to enable the XFS_IOC_SWAPEXT ioctl to operate on
> v5 filesystems correctly. The first patch implements the
> transactional runtime change, and the second patch implements the
> recovery of that change.
> 
> Both the run time and recovery code use the same mechanism for
> changing the owner field in all the blocks in the BMBT on an inode,
> and even though XFS_IOC_SWAPEXT only swaps the data fork, the code
> has been written to be fork neutral so if we even need to swap
> attribute forks it should just work for that, too.
> 
> Further, because the BMBT code uses the generic btree
> infrastructure, the btree modification is done as a generic function
> as well and so should work for all types of btrees supported by the
> generic code. Hence if the need arises we can easily change the
> owner of any btree that uses the generic code.
> 
> The testing carried out is documented in the description of the
> second patch.
> 
> AFAIA, this is the only remaining feature that the kernel v5
> filesystem implementation didn't support. Hence, with this patchset,
> there are no more feature checkboxes that need to be ticked that
> would prevent us from removing the experimental tag from it. Testing
> is the only remaining gate to removing the tag from the kernel
> code...

Applied these 2.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-10 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-30  0:23 [PATCH 0/2] xfs: defrag support for v5 filesystems Dave Chinner
2013-08-30  0:23 ` [PATCH 1/2] xfs: swap extents operations for CRC filesystems Dave Chinner
2013-09-09 20:32   ` Mark Tinguely
2013-08-30  0:23 ` [PATCH 2/2] xfs: recovery of " Dave Chinner
2013-09-09 20:37   ` Mark Tinguely
2013-09-03 19:12 ` [PATCH 0/2] xfs: defrag support for v5 filesystems Ben Myers
2013-09-03 22:45   ` Dave Chinner
2013-09-05 19:34     ` Ben Myers
2013-09-05 19:57       ` Eric Sandeen
2013-09-05 20:03         ` Eric Sandeen
2013-09-06  3:34         ` Dave Chinner
2013-09-10 17:51 ` Ben Myers [this message]

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