From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:15:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.pawisda.de (mail.pawisda.de [213.157.4.156]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l9HGFeIw029237 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:15:43 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost.intra.frontsite.de [127.0.0.1]) by mail.pawisda.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1EF6F161 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:48:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.pawisda.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ndb [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 19122-03 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:48:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.51.2] (lw-pc002.intra.frontsite.de [192.168.51.2]) by mail.pawisda.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B86E8E822 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:48:37 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <47162ED4.6000108@linworks.de> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:48:36 +0200 From: Ruben Porras MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: REVIEW: xfs_reno #2 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: "xfs@oss.sgi.com" Barry Naujok wrote: > A couple changes from the first xfs_reno: > > - Major one is that symlinks are now supported, but only > owner, group and extended attributes are copied for them > (not times or inode attributes). > > - Man page! > > > To make this better, ideally we need some form of > "swap inodes" function in the kernel, where the entire > contents of the inode themselves are swapped. This form > can handle any inode and without any of the dir/file/attr/etc > copy/swap mechanisms we have in xfs_reno. > If everything goes as planned I will have time next month to look at xfs_reno. -- Rubén Porras LinWorks GmbH