From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751915Ab0EHTIt (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 May 2010 15:08:49 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:34195 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751095Ab0EHTIs (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 May 2010 15:08:48 -0400 Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 15:08:43 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: XFS status update for April 2010 Message-ID: <20100508190843.GA20445@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 April 2.6.34 still was in the release candidate phase, with a hand full of XFS fixes making it into mainline. Development for the 2.6.35 merge window went ahead full steam at the same time. While a fair amount of patches hit the development tree these were largely cleanups, with the real development activity happening on the mailing list. There was another round of patches and following discussion on the scalable busy extent tracking and delayed logging features mentioned last month. They are expected to be merged in May and queue up for the Linux 2.6.35 window. Last but not least April saw a large number of XFS fixes backported to the 2.6.32 and 2.6.33 -stable series. In user land xfsprogs has seen few but important updates, preparing for a new release next month. The xfs_repair tool saw a fix to correctly enable the lazy superblock counters on an existing filesystem, and xfs_fsr saw updates to better deal with dynamic attribute forks. Last but not a least a port to Debian GNU/kFreeBSD got merged. The xfstests test suite saw two new test cases and various smaller fixes.