>From looking at the kernel git commits November looked like a pretty slow month with just two hand full fixes going into the release candidates for Linux 2.6.37, and none at all going into the development tree. But in this case git statistics didn't tell the whole story - there was a lot of activity on patches for the next merge window on the list. The focus in November was still at metadata scalability, with various patchsets that improves parallel creates and unlinks again, and also improves 8-way dbench throughput by 30%. In addition to that there were patches to improve preallocation for NFS servers, to simplify the writeback code, and to remove the XFS-internal percpu counters for free space for the generic kernel percpu counters, which just needed a small improvement. On the user space side we saw the release of xfsprogs 3.1.4, which contains various accumulated bug fixes and Debian packaging updates. The xfsdump tree saw a large update to speed up restore by using mmap for an internal database and remove the limitation of ~ 214 million directory entries per dump file. The xfstests test suite saw three new testcases and various fixes, including support for the hfsplus filesystem. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
