On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 02:10:34PM -0500, Brian Foster wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 01:13:25PM -0500, Brian Foster wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Here's v5 of sparse inode chunks. The only real change here is to > > convert the allocmask helpers back to using the XFS bitmap helpers > > rather than the generic bitmap code. This eliminates the need for the > > endian-conversion hack and extra helper to export a generic bitmap to a > > native type. The former users of the generic bitmap itself have been > > converted to use the native 64-bit value appropriately. > > > > The XFS bitmap code is actually not in userspace either so neither of > > these implementations backport cleanly to userspace. As it is, I've not > > included the sparse alloc/free code in my xfsprogs branch as this code > > currently isn't needed. Nothing in userspace that I've seen requires the > > ability to do a sparse inode allocation or free. I suspect if it is > > needed in the future, we can more easily sync the XFS bitmap helpers to > > userspace than the generic Linux bitmap code. > > > > Thoughts, reviews, flames appreciated... > > > > Attached is a tarball of a set of xfsprogs patches to aid in testing > this patchset. I'm posting as a tarball because the core patches (e.g., > the kernel patches) are obviously still in flux. The tarball includes > the following: > > - general dependency backports > - core infrastructure backports (i.e., applicable patches from this v5 > sparse inode set) > - xfsprogs work for sparse inode support You should probably base it on the libxfs-3.19-update branch rather than backport random patches into the current branch. This is what I'm basing the current rmap-btree work I'm doing on, and having the same libxfs structure on both sides makes it way easier to keep both sides up to date.... Give me a couple of hours and I'll push out the latest updates to that the branch... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
