Re: REVIEW: xfs_reno #2

Ruben Porras
2007-10-17T16:15:51Z

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.

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Rubén Porras
LinWorks GmbH