October finally saw the delayed release of Linux 3.1, which is a fairly boring release as XFS is concerned. In addition to a few bug fixes and cleanups the biggest item is an XFS-internal re organization of the source files, dropping all sub directories under fs/xfs. Due to the long Linux 3.1 release cycle development for 3.3 has already started full steam in October while adding a few more small optimization and fixes to the development tree for Linux 3.2, and merging that tree into mainline. Notable items for Linux 3.2 are speedup for parallel O_DIRECT reads and writes on high IOPS devices, optimizations for fsync(2) on directories and sync(2) latency, as well as further small improvements for metadata performance on highly parallel workloads. On the user space side xfsprogs saw a few more xfs_repair fixes, as well as some updates of mount point handling for the xfs_quota tools, which together with the updates from the last months was published in form of the xfsprogs 3.1.6 release. This was accompanied by an xfsdump 3.0.6 release, which does not include any new updates in October, but lots of work from the previous month. Xfstests saw two additional test cases and various fixes, and it's first versioned release ever. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
