Meeting notes for 2013

Meeting of Jul 19

Attending: Ric, Dave, Brian, Chandra, Troy, Ben, Mark, Andrew, Geoffrey, Eric

3.11:

Ben notes the remaining content is limited to two patches from Chandra's quota work
Chandra, Dave, and Ben discussed the remaining issues with the patches, and Ben requested that when user/group/prj quotas are active the old interface continue to work for compatability
Chandra agreed to repost the patch without the -EINVAL return code
A bugfix from Chandra for a CIL deadlock (will be appropriate for 3.11) is posted to the list
The quota related hang at unmount in xfs/50 is reproduced by Dave, and Jeff. Chandra has not hit it
Dave notes a log space hang with generic/204 with a 512 bytes block size
Dave notes a log reservation overflow in generic/070

3.12:

Dave notes that there are changes to shrinkers and LRU lists coming through the MM tree
Dave is going to post the rearrangement for libxfs later this morning
Ben notes there is work from Dwight, Jeff, and Chandra on the list for 3.12
Log reservation size verification from Jeff
Dave split his CIL optimisation patch into 5 separate patches
Dave has been working on dtype support to optimise lookups in directories to avoid having to stat each inode
Dave is working on swapextents with CRCS.
Dave requested an xfsprogs release to go with 3.12
Mark reported a bug with xfs/227, which Dave things is likely related to the log reservation overflow in generic/070

Meeting of Jul 12

Attending: Dave, Chandra, Andrew, Brian, Mark, Ben, Troy

Chandra posted his quotas series again yesterday, will separate out the QSTAT work, and post a new rev soon
Dave suggested a complete separation of the new QSTAT interface from the old QSTAT interface
Discussed the proper behavior for the old QSTAT interface when user/group/proj quotas are all active, and came to the conclusion that it can return -EINVAL
Agreed we'd like to get the remaining patch into 3.11, but are aware it is very close to the merge window
Dave mentioned that lately we've been rushing to get stuff in at the last minute, and it would be better to get things in earlier in the development window. Ben agrees.
Dave is going to repost the rearrangement of code for libxfs syncs for 3.12
Dave mentioned that there are changes coming up which are going through the MM trees.

Meeting of Jun 6

Attending: Carlos, Brian, Rich, Ben, Troy, Mark, Dave, Geoffrey, Andrew

Ben sent pull request with remaining 3.10 content
Dave has been focusing on a log recovery problem reported by Dave Jones, and a corruption issue reported by Sage
Ben is planning on pulling in crc userspace work into a 'crc-dev' branch once Dave reposts
Jeff had a talk at Linux Con

Around the table:
- Ben: Working an NFS bug, sent pull request, runnign xfstests in the background
- Rich: Working on a SuSE bug
- Geoffrey: Nothing XFS related at this time
- Mark: Parent pointers, userspace patches for CRCs, a SuSE bug
- Andrew: Working an NFS bug
- Dave: Log recovery issue with Dave Jones, stuff for 3.11: Inode create transaction, minor optimizations for inode creates, Doco updates for mount options in xfs.5 manpage which is shipped with xfsprogs. Slowly fixing things in CRC code
- Brian: Helping out with reviews, working some RH internal xfs bugs
- Carlos: Working on an issue with ACLs and set group id

Meeting of 30 May 2013

Held 3:00pm CDT

Attending: Phil White, Brian Foster, Mark Tinguely, Ben Myers, Geoffrey Wehrman, Andrew Dahl, Troy McCorkell, Rich Johnston, Dave Chinner, Eric Sandeen

Mark noted that he hit the BMV_DELALLOC when testing patches for 3.10-rc4. Dave mentioned that this test hangs on 32 bit machines.

Ben has a list of patches he's comfortable with for 3.10-rc4

Fixes:

f648167f xfs: avoid nesting transactions in xfs_qm_scall_setqlim()
xfs: kill suid/sgid through the truncate path.

Brian said this is low risk Dave said this should go to -stable kernels since it has potential security implications

Wanted for CRCS:

xfs: fix split buffer vector log recovery support

Mark says this one isn't CRC specific Dave says this has problem has been there since 2002 Ben asked does this need to go back to -stable Dave said probably not since we don't have bug reports

xfs: fix dir3 freespace block corruption

Dave: fix isn't for the padding but for the corruption related to the initialization. Addname_int removes initialization of a copule of fields using a dirv2 header format. Ben: So I missed the point in my review.

9a5b6dee xfs: fix incorrect remote symlink block count

Ben and brian reviewed this... fairly straightforward.

xfs: disable swap extents ioctl on CRC enabled filesystems

Ben: this prevents crc users from corrupting their filesystems with xfs_fsr.

After discussing the patches on Ben's list, we discussed whether the rest of the queue should be pulled in for 3.10. 1) attribute related fixes, 2) fixes for quotas, 3) fixes for inode unlinked list, 4) max acl count...

Ben was resistant to pulling this work in due to the risk it poses to non-crc users. Dave and Eric wanted it pulled in. Geoffrey mentioned that the ACL update need not be tied to the CRC feature bit, and that not all users will want to use CRCs due to the performance impact.

Actions: >>> We're going to do a pull request with the stuff BPM outlined plus the attr stuff for 3.10-rc4. >>> The inode unlinked list work and quota stuff still needs review for a pull request in 3.10-rc5.