[Ocfs2-users] [Ocfs2-announce] OCFS2 1.4.2-1 and OCFS2 Tools 1.4.2-1 released

[Sunil Mushran]

Brian Kroth wrote:
> Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran at oracle.com> 2009-06-16 16:38:
>   
>> LOOKING AHEAD
>>
>> We are aiming to release OCFS2 1.6 later this year. This release will
>> include the features that we have worked on over the past year. These are:
>>
>> 1. Extended Attributes (unlimited number of attributes)
>> 2. POSIX ACLs
>> 3. Security Attributes
>> 4. Metadata Checksums with ECC (inodes and directories are checksummed)
>> 5. JBD2 Support
>> 6. Indexed Directories (subdirs number increased from 32000 to 2147483647)
>> 7. REFLINK (inode snapshotting)
>>     
>
> Just looking over these as well:
> http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_29#head-2febaacb9f9bef03ee54da9a2b026fdea824a996
> http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_30#head-1a54a63244fb0d85375f8ecbe651cf94dac38c6c
>
> For those of us wanting to play with the 2.6.30 kernel, does the new
> ocfs2-tools release support any of these features?  In particular are
> ACLs, extended attributes, indexed directories, or optimized inode
> allocations supported by the tools?  Last I had heard they weren't quite
> ready for some of those yet.
>   

ocfs2-tools 1.4.2 has support for xattr/acls, metadata checksums and jbd2.
Optimized inode allocs does not need any tools changes.

Support for indexed dirs and quotas is still missing from the tools.

Sunil