Re: porting xfs_reno to linux

David Chinner
2007-11-13T21:00:32Z

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 07:20:59PM +0100, Ruben Porras wrote:
> Let's go back to the shrink xfs theme.
>
> >2. Move inodes out of offline AGs
> > - On Irix, we have a program called 'xfs_reno' which
> > converts 64 bit inode filesystems to 32 bit inode
> > filesystems. This needs to be:
> > - released under the GPL (should not be a problem).
>
> done
>
> > - ported to linux
>
> Do you mean, rewrite the program to work on kernel space,

No.

> or just port it
> to glibc?

Port to linux. i.e. make it work and remove any tainted code that it
might contain from Irix so we can open source it. Barry has
already done this; the patch is here:

http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2007-10/msg00054.html

All it needs is reviewing and then xfs_reno for linux is done.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group