From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753622AbZKLRyv (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:54:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753005AbZKLRyu (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:54:50 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:34016 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752369AbZKLRyt (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:54:49 -0500 Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:54:55 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig To: xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: XFS status update for October 2009 Message-ID: <20091112175455.GA32539@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In October we saw the Linux 2.6.32 merge window with a major XFS update. This update includes a refactoring of the inode allocator which also allows for speedups for very large filesystems, major sync fixes, updates to the fsync and O_SYNC handling which merge the two code paths into a single and more efficient one, a workaround for the VFS time stamp behavior, and of course various smaller fixes. A couple of additional fixes have been queued up for the next merge window. On the userspace side there has been a healthy activity on xfsprogs: mkfs can now discard unused sectors on SSDs and thinly provisioned storage devices and use the more generic libblkid for topology information and filesystems detection instead of the older libdisk, and the build system gained some updates to make the source package generation simpler and shared for different package types. A patch has been out to the list but yet committed to add symbol versioning to the libhandle library to make future ABI additions easier. The xfstests package only saw some minor activity with a new test case and small build system fixes. New minor releases of xfsprogs and xfsdump were tagged but not formally released after additional discussion. Instead a new major xfsprogs release is planned for next month.