At the first of August we finally saw the release of Linux 2.6.35, which includes a large XFS update. The most prominent feature in Linux 2.6.35 is the new delayed logging code which provides massive speedups for metadata-intensive workloads, but there has been a large amount of other fixes and cleanups, leading to the following diffstat: 67 files changed, 4426 insertions(+), 3835 deletions(-) Given the early release of Linux 2.6.35 the merge window for the next release fully fell into the month of August. The XFS updates for Linux 2.6.36 include various additional performance improvements in the delayed logging code, for direct I/O writes and for avoiding synchronous transactions, as well as various fixed and large amount of cleanups, including the removal of the remaining dead DMAPI code. On the userspace side we saw the 3.1.3 release of xfsprogs, which includes various smaller fixes, support for the new XFS_IOC_ZERO_RANGE ioctl and Debian packaging updates. The xfstests package saw one new test case and a couple of smaller patches, and xfsdump has not seen any updates at all. The XMLified versions of the XFS users guide, training labs and filesystem structure documentation are now available as on the fly generated html on the xfs.org website and can be found at: http://www.xfs.org/index.php/XFS_Papers_and_Documentation _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
