On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 15:49 -0700, Avantika Mathur wrote: > Ext4 Developer Interlock Call: 03/14/2007 Meeting Minutes > > Attendees: Mingming Cao, Eric Sandeen, Ted Ts'o, Dave Kleikamp, Suparna Bhattacharya, Takashi Sato, Avantika Mathur > > Minutes can be accessed at: http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Developer%27s_Conference_Call > just a little typo about the date of the conference on the wiki page, you could fix that next time~ mingming > > Ext4 git Tree: > > - Shaggy and Eric fixed the recent problems with the nanosecond timestamps in the git tree > > - There is a general problem that the git tree is not updated frequently > > - Ted feels there is not enough testing done to feel comfortable updating to a new release > > -- Many of the patches added to the tree are not tested properly. > -- It would be helpful if people could pick up the tree and test it, and make sure all upstream merging criteria is met by ext4 developers. > > - Currently looking at methods of automating testing of each new git tree release on different architectures and benchmarks. > > - Slow code review is also slowing down ext4. > > - Ted suggested maintaining a git tree that tracks the patch queue, so there can be multiple people working on the patch queue. > - When patches are stable, update the central git tree that can then be pushed upstream. > > - Ted will start a second git tree, and initially put Shaggy and Mingming as additional users who can access the tree. > > > OLS: > > - The Ext4 OLS Paper was accepted. > > - Avantika presented the basic outline for the paper, Suparna had comments on the layout > > - Rather than grouping features based on time (when they are going to be included), group them based on classification, > - i.e. scalability, block placement, new features. > > - This way the paper can be used as a reference for people who want to learn about ext4 > > - Avantika will update the outline and send out a new version > > - In the 2005 OLS ext3 paper, benchmarks tio dbench and filemark were used. > - Looking into different benchmarks to use in this paper. > - Eric suggested looking at CPU utilization test used by David Chinner in his XFS OLS paper last year. > > > Preallocation: > > - Amit has been working on implementing the fallocate systemn call > > - he was struggling with the mode bit and implementation on different architectures. > > - Having difficulty in how to order the parameters on s390 architecture > > - Suparna will ask Amit to post his current patches, so other can begin reviewing and helping out. > > > i_version Patches: > > - the high 32 bit of the i_version field is still required to support the full 64 bit i_version number NFSv4 requires > > - The general consensus on the call was to use the i_extra_isize in the inode for the high 32 bits. > > - This would keep i_version completely separated from ctime > > > > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
