Alpha2 changelog

Alpha2 changelog

[Eric Sandeen]

Here's my stab at a changelog.  If you did something since 3.11, and it should be highlighted but it's not, now's your chance!

xfsprogs-3.2.0-alpha2 (19 November 2013)
        - Alpha release for the purpose of testing the CRC feature in kernels
          3.10 and newer
        - Enable xfs_db write support and xfs_metadump support for CRC enabled
          filesystems.
        - Add directory entry filetype support for non-CRC filesystems.
        - Remove experimental warnings for CRC filesystems.
        - Ensure all inodes created by xfs_repair have a proper d_type set.
        - Fix build on big endian machines.
        - Properly handle symlinks to devices on various tool commandlines.
        - Fix xfs_repair's dirty log detection for 4k sector logs, broken
          in Alpha1.
        - Fix a potential segfault in xfs_repair when issuing progress reports.
        - Fix potential xfs_fsr failures when running w/ selinux.
        - Update config.guess/config.sub for arm64, thanks to Colin Watson.
        - Add FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE support to the xfs_io fallocate command,
          thanks to Namjae Jeon.
        - Stop wasting memory by caching inode structures in xfs_repair -
          they are never re-used.  Thanks to Christoph Hellwig.
        - Fix several Coverity-found defects, thanks to Li Zhong.
        - Fix platform_test_xfs_fd to return false on special files which
          cannot take an xfs ioctl.
        - Sync up libxfs with kernel code.


xfsprogs-3.2.0-alpha1 (26 September 2013)
        - Alpha release for the purpose of testing the CRC feature in kernels
          3.10 and newer
        - Remove all vestiges of old, unsupported version 1 directory code.
        - Add a “readdir” command to xfs_io, thanks to Brian Foster.
        - Fix potential segfault in xfs_repair when creating lost+found.
        - Zero out unused parts of on-disk superblocks during repair, to avoid
          metadata verifier failures at runtime.
        - Add directory entry type support to mkfs.xfs and xfs_db.
        - Add the icreate transaction to xfs_logprint, and fix continuation
          transactions.
        - Print all AGI unlinked buckets in xfs_logprint.
        - Fix mkfs.xfs ENOSPC with protofile which creates a very large
          directory.
        - Fix several Coverity-found defects, thanks to Li Zhong.
        - Do all file reads in xfs_fsr using O_DIRECT.
        - Sync up libxfs with kernel code.

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Re: Alpha2 changelog

[Dave Chinner]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 06:32:23PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Here's my stab at a changelog.  If you did something since 3.11, and it should be highlighted but it's not, now's your chance!
> 
> xfsprogs-3.2.0-alpha2 (19 November 2013)
>         - Alpha release for the purpose of testing the CRC feature in kernels
>           3.10 and newer
>         - Enable xfs_db write support and xfs_metadump support for CRC enabled
>           filesystems.
>         - Add directory entry filetype support for non-CRC filesystems.
>         - Remove experimental warnings for CRC filesystems.
>         - Ensure all inodes created by xfs_repair have a proper d_type set.
>         - Fix build on big endian machines.
>         - Properly handle symlinks to devices on various tool commandlines.
>         - Fix xfs_repair's dirty log detection for 4k sector logs, broken
>           in Alpha1.
>         - Fix a potential segfault in xfs_repair when issuing progress reports.
>         - Fix potential xfs_fsr failures when running w/ selinux.
>         - Update config.guess/config.sub for arm64, thanks to Colin Watson.
>         - Add FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE support to the xfs_io fallocate command,
>           thanks to Namjae Jeon.

That got reverted as the kernel parts haven't gone upstream yet.

>         - Stop wasting memory by caching inode structures in xfs_repair -
>           they are never re-used.  Thanks to Christoph Hellwig.
>         - Fix several Coverity-found defects, thanks to Li Zhong.
>         - Fix platform_test_xfs_fd to return false on special files which
>           cannot take an xfs ioctl.
>         - Sync up libxfs with kernel code.

	- improved xfs_repair performance on large filesystems
	  (always use prefetch and strided AG scanning
	  functionality)

> xfsprogs-3.2.0-alpha1 (26 September 2013)
>         - Alpha release for the purpose of testing the CRC feature in kernels
>           3.10 and newer
>         - Remove all vestiges of old, unsupported version 1 directory code.
>         - Add a “readdir” command to xfs_io, thanks to Brian Foster.
>         - Fix potential segfault in xfs_repair when creating lost+found.
>         - Zero out unused parts of on-disk superblocks during repair, to avoid
>           metadata verifier failures at runtime.
>         - Add directory entry type support to mkfs.xfs and xfs_db.
>         - Add the icreate transaction to xfs_logprint, and fix continuation
>           transactions.
>         - Print all AGI unlinked buckets in xfs_logprint.
>         - Fix mkfs.xfs ENOSPC with protofile which creates a very large
>           directory.
>         - Fix several Coverity-found defects, thanks to Li Zhong.
>         - Do all file reads in xfs_fsr using O_DIRECT.
>         - Sync up libxfs with kernel code.

	- Add support for concurrent group and project quota usage
	  on CRC enabled filesystems.
	- Ensure mkfs creates log sizes that are always large enough
	  for the configured fileystem geometry.

I think that covers most things. Thanks for doing this, Eric.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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Re: Alpha2 changelog

[Christoph Hellwig]

Looks reasonabe.  In addition to Dave's comments it might be nice to add
names for changes from external contributors like we did in the past,
although I've always wondered who gets the attribute and who is
considered part of the team already..

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