From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id oBLBUYcw014126 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:30:35 -0600 Received: from daytona.panasas.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 8DA092126F4 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 03:32:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from daytona.panasas.com (daytona.panasas.com [67.152.220.89]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id orYCTGI49DG58tGA for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 03:32:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D109047.8050300@panasas.com> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:32:23 +0200 From: Boaz Harrosh MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: XFS status update for November 2010 References: <20101220180013.GA16283@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20101220180013.GA16283@infradead.org> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com On 12/20/2010 08:00 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >>>From looking at the kernel git commits November looked like a pretty > slow month with just two hand full fixes going into the release candidates > for Linux 2.6.37, and none at all going into the development tree. > But in this case git statistics didn't tell the whole story - there > was a lot of activity on patches for the next merge window on the list. > The focus in November was still at metadata scalability, with various > patchsets that improves parallel creates and unlinks again, and also > improves 8-way dbench throughput by 30%. In addition to that there > were patches to improve preallocation for NFS servers, to simplify > the writeback code, and to remove the XFS-internal percpu counters > for free space for the generic kernel percpu counters, which just needed > a small improvement. > > On the user space side we saw the release of xfsprogs 3.1.4, which > contains various accumulated bug fixes and Debian packaging updates. > The xfsdump tree saw a large update to speed up restore by using > mmap for an internal database and remove the limitation of ~ 214 > million directory entries per dump file. The xfstests test suite > saw three new testcases and various fixes, including support for the > hfsplus filesystem. Hi Christoph, happy holidays I love these reports you do, thank you I have one small request, could you please post them to linux-fsdevel as well. linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org is so crowded I keep missing them. Thanks Boaz _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs