On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 02:23:16AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 04:19:59PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 01:08:28AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > We have the libxfs resync and a healthy amount of fixes in xfsprogs, > > > what about cutting a release in about 1-2 weeks from now? > > > > Probably a good idea. > > > > Once it is release, I'll look at doing another kernel code sync - > > this one will be a lot smaller than the last - and then we can start > > adding all the new stuff we've got on top of it... > > I have a few things that I want to do to make syncs easier in the > future: > > - stop using the plain xfs.h include in userland, and use the same > includes as in kernel space. This might require some new stub > headers and magic #include_next games in userland, but should really > ease our life there. > - split files only partially shared between kernel and userspace and > logical boundaries so that they can be shared 1:1. My poster child > for that would be to split a xfs_busy_extent.c out of xfs_alloc.c. Yes, definitely. I think the changes to the dir2 headers will make things a lot easier in future, too, so further consolidation of the kernel headers along those would be a good thing to do as well. > But let's get this release out before starting major surgery. *nod* Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
