[Ocfs2-devel] Anything I'm missing for 2.6.31?
Sunil Mushran
sunil.mushran at oracle.com
Mon Jun 1 18:23:39 PDT 2009
Joel Becker wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> We're coming up on the next merge window, and I only have a
> couple tiny fixes for ocfs2. I thought I'd list up what I know is
> outstanding, and I was hoping to find out if I was missing anything. If
> I am, I need to get it in linux-next and set for the merge window ASAP.
>
> - metaecc-stats
> This is a trivial patch I put together to track errors seen by the
> blockcheck code. No one has reviewed it. Not a high priority, but I
> suspect that if it looks good to a reviewer, we can push it whenever we
> want.
I thought I had sob-bed it. Anycase, sob for the following:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2.git;a=commitdiff;h=652005955cff547d2a845d5a794ba36e65550774
> - cacheme
> These are the changes that separate out the metadata cache from the
> ocfs2_inode. All metadata I/O and caching is done against the cache
> rather than a specific inode. This is needed for the refcount tree
> code. The code was ready for the 2.6.30 merge window, but we aren't
> going to push it until refcount trees are ready.
>
> - refcount
> Support for refcount trees in the filesystem. The basic code is
> quite hashed out. Tao's done a great job, and Tristan is beating on it.
> We're now tracking down major bugs. It's not quite organized for
> mainline submission, and it really warrants some time in linux-next
> before we push it, so it won't be making the 2.6.31 merge window. I'm
> expecting 2.6.32 though.
>
> - reflink
> The generic reflink system call patch seems to have evolved as
> needed. I'm ready to push it upstream, but I don't think it goes
> without some consumer. That is, I push it with the refcount tree code.
> I'm open to dissenters, though, and I'm going to be asking VFS people
> about it.
>
> That's what I have. What'd I miss?
It probably would be best to hold-off on reflink till 2.6.32.
I can't think of anything else. This will be the fewest number of
patches we've pushed during merge window since... ever.
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