On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 01:32:23PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > 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. Boaz, you can set up a modification watch on this page: http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_Status_Updates as Christoph posts the updates there as well. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
