On 12/20/2010 08:00 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >>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. Hi Christoph, happy holidays I love these reports you do, thank you I have one small request, could you please post them to linux-fsdevel as well. linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is so crowded I keep missing them. Thanks Boaz _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
