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| == XFS status update for August 2008 ==
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| With the 2.6.27-rc5 release the 2.6.27 cycle is nearing it's end. The major
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| XFS feature in 2.6.27-rc5 is support for case-insensitive file names. At
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| this point it is still limited to 7bit ASCII file names, with updates for
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| utf8 file names expected to follow later. In addition to that 2.6.27-rc5
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| fixes a long-standing problem with non-EABI arm compiler which pack some XFS
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| data structures wrongly. Besides this 2.6.27-rc5 also contains various
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| cleanups, most notably the removal of the last bhv_vnode_t instances, and
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| most uses of semaphores. As usual the diffstat for XFS from 2.6.26 to
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| 2.6.26-rc5 is negative:
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| 100 files changed, 3819 insertions(+), 4409 deletions(-)
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| On the user space front a new minor xfsprogs version is about to be released
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| containing various fixes including the user space part of arm packing fix.
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| Work in progress on the XFS mailing list are a large patch set to unify the
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| alloc, inobt and bmap btree implementation into a single that supports
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| arbitrarily pluggable key and record formats. These btree changes are the
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| first major preparation for adding CRC checks to all metadata structures in
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| XFS, and an even larger patch set to unify the XFS and Linux inode structures,
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| and perform all inode write back from the btree uses instead of an inode
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| cache in XFS.
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