November or December? - Sedat - On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > November saw stabilization of the Linux 3.2 release candidates, including > a few fixes for XFS. In addition a lot of bug fixes were backported to > the 3.0 long term stable and 3.1-stable releases for users not on > bleeding edge kernels. > > At the same time development for Linux 3.3 went on at a fast pace, although > no pages were merged into the development tree yet. The highlights are: > > - further versions of the patches to log all file size updates instead of > relying the the flaky VM writeback code for them > - an initial version of SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA support > - removal of the old non-delaylog logging code, and cleanups resulting > from the removal > - large updates for the quota code > > Userspace development was even more busy: > > Xfsprogs saw the rushed 3.1.7 release which contains Debian packaging fixes, > a polish translation update and a xfs_repair fix. In the meantime a lot of > xfs_repair fixes were posted but mostly not reviewed and commit yet. > > Xfsdump grew support for using pthreads to write backup streams to multiple > tapes in parallel, and SGI_XFSDUMP_SKIP_FILE which has been deprecated in > favor of the nodump flag has finally been removed. > > Xfstests saw an enormous amount of updates. The fsstress tool saw major > updates to exercise even more system calls, and found numerous bugs in > all major Linux filesystems, additional ENOSPC tests, a new test for > btrfs-specific functionality and the usual amount of bug fixes and small > cleanups. Also a series to clean up the very large filesystem testing, > including extending the support to ext4 was posted but not committed yet. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
