From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:49342 "EHLO userp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751040AbdHaPb5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Aug 2017 11:31:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 08:31:48 -0700 From: "Darrick J. Wong" Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: remove experimental tag for reflinks Message-ID: <20170831153148.GJ3775@magnolia> References: <20170830145400.3681-1-hch@lst.de> <20170831064033.GF3775@magnolia> <20170831124321.GA21939@bfoster.bfoster> <20170831133019.GA5468@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170831133019.GA5468@lst.de> Sender: linux-xfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: List-Id: xfs To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Brian Foster , linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, Eric Sandeen , Dave Chinner On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 03:30:19PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 08:43:21AM -0400, Brian Foster wrote: > > FWIW, I don't really have a strong opinion. To me, removing experimental > > means we feel the code has stabilized long enough in principle, there > > are no significant problems (i.e., corruption/crash vectors) that we are > > aware of and the feature is complete (full userspace tool support, etc). > > The in-core extent list thing seems like more of a general problem to me > > Agreed so far. Dave? Eric? Any perspective you'd like to offer? :) > > That aside, shouldn't we consider the rmapbt experimental tag first, or > > at least at the same time? It's been around for slightly longer. > > I've not done much testing on that or have experience with it in general, > nor do I have a customer with a big QA team beating it hard, so I can't > really comment on that one. rmapbt will remain EXPERIMENTAL because I still have more patches to send to finish the feature for realtime devices. Speaking of which, it's now been 53 weeks since the last dump of that, so I'll go do that now. :P FWIW I /also/ run rmapbt everywhere and haven't had any trouble with it since adding the per-AG reservations. --D > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html