XFS Checkins - TAKE Summary

This document contains summaries of what work has been done on the XFS tree. If you are looking for information on when XFS will be integrated into the main linux tree or a list of what remains to be done please look at the FAQ.

You will also want to visit the main XFS site here.

This summary covers CVS checkins the the XFS tree from August 27, 2002 to September 5, 2002.

Significant issues

• Greg Freemyer reports that LVM snapshots now work reliably on kernels from CVS as of September 3, 2002. If you are using LVM and want to make snapshots you must use a kernel from CVS on this date or later.
• Eric Sandeen notes that "generic" vfs mount options already show up in /proc/mounts. His patch to query xfs mount structs is only for xfs specific mount options.

Date	Checked in by	Patch done by	Description (click to see the original TAKE message)
August 27, 2002	Steve Lord	Christoph Hellwig	Remove checks which cover cases which cannot happen on linux due to vfs locking.
August 27, 2002	Steve Lord	Eric Sandeen	Replace locks previously removed. The missing locks had caused some races on larger cpu count systems.
August 27, 2002	Steve Lord	Steve Lord	Update CVS to linux-2.5.32. This puts the old IDE subsystem back in and really decreases the number of XFS related changes.
August 28, 2002	Nathan Scott	Nathan Scott	Correct the acl.5 man page description of the access check algorithm with respect to group objects.
August 28, 2002	Eric Sandeen	Christoph Hellwig	Export mark_page_accessed to get modules building again.
August 28, 2002	Eric Sandeen	Eric Sandeen	Remove extraneous comments and reorder unlocks for cosmetic reasons.
August 28, 2002	Nathan Scott	Nathan Scott	Add m68k syscalls to attr command and fix up Alpha ones (missing "enabling" #define). Also bumped version.
August 28, 2002	Eric Sandeen	Eric Sandeen	Reduce xfs_ioctl stack usage.
August 28, 2002	Steve Lord	Steve Lord	Fix a use after free in bulkstat.
August 28, 2002	Steve Lord	Christoph Hellwig	Remove more duplicate rename checks.
August 28, 2002	Eric Sandeen	Eric Sandeen	Remove 256 byte error message from the stack.
August 28, 2002	Steve Lord	Steve Lord	Fix highmem builds in 2.5.
August 28, 2002	Eric Sandeen	Christoph Hellwig	Move to vmap/vunmap interface in 2.4.
August 28, 2002	Eric Sandeen	Christoph Hellwig	Remove unused pagebuf macros.
August 28, 2002	Eric Sandeen	Eric Sandeen	Fix up mkfs for lvm volumes to give full path of the volume to lvdisplay.
August 28, 2002	Steve Lord	Steve Lord	Restrict space reservation calls to admins only by making ioctl calls require CAP_SYS_ADMIN, or unwritten extent support.
August 29, 2002	Steve Lord	Steve Lord	Merge fix from 2.4.20 code, allows gcc 3.2 to build xfs.
August 29, 2002	Steve Lord	Christoph Hellwig	Cleanup stats/sysctl: build xfs_stat.c/xfs_sysctl.c only if CONFIG_PROC_FS/CONFIG_SYSCTL isset fix inlcusion guards in xfs_stats.h/xfs_sysctl.h make xfs_param a struct instead of an union - the array member was never used
August 29, 2002	Steve Lord	Christoph Hellwig	Cleanup/optimize xfs_dir_lookup_int().
August 29, 2002	Dean Roehrich	Dean Roehrich	Add <linux/major.h> to dmapi_sysent.c.
August 29, 2002	Steve Lord	Steve Lord	Set inode->i_blksize to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE.
August 29, 2002	Steve Lord	Steve Lord	Fix log recovery of unlinked inodes.
August 30, 2002	Nathan Scott	Nathan Scott	Sync user/kernel after recent kernel changes. noop for userspace.
September 1, 2002	Steve Lord	Steve Lord	Fix some issues between creating new inodes and tearing down old ones.
September 1, 2002	Steve Lord	Steve Lord	Merge up to 2.5.33.
September 1, 2002	Nathan Scott	Nathan Scott	Snapshot QA Remove local tmp variable "sync_mode" which was accidentally left in on previous checkin. Add in Greg's snapshot test, 068. Added 067 back into the auto-qa mix, looks like it wasn't added back after being disabled.
September 2, 2002	Steve Lord	Steve Lord	Make xfs_link static.
September 3, 2002	Nathan Scott	Nathan Scott	These changes aim to make all the tools behave more gracefully in the presence of old kernels which don't support the latest XFS_IOC_FSGEOMETRY ioctl.
September 3, 2002	Eric Sandeen	Eric Sandeen	Allow xfs_db to write negative numbers. "-1" is often a special value for inode numbers, etc, but xfs_db didn't allow you to write a negative number.
September 3, 2002	Eric Sandeen	Eric Sandeen	Add a superblock method so that /proc/mounts will query the xfs mount structs, etc, and tell you what options are really set in the kernel.
September 4, 2002	Eric Sandeen	Christoph Hellwig	Remove dead members of struct vfs.
September 4, 2002	Eric Sandeen	Christoph Hellwig	Make xfs_aops.c look like XFS source. Remove the misleading comment that refers to page_bufs (I've also removed the written by part as nothing else in XFS has it). Use xfs.h instead of page_buf_internal.h. Switch static for STATIC. Use XFS's ASSERT() instead of hand-crafted assert().
September 4, 2002	Eric Sandeen	Christoph Hellwig	Use wait_event in xfs_iunpin_wait.
September 4, 2002	Dean Roehrich	Dean Roehrich	Add mtpt option to go with dmapi option in xfs.txt.
September 4, 2002	Eric Sandeen	Christoph Hellwig	copyin/copyout is used only six times in the actual XFS code. Remove it.
September 4, 2002	Eric Sandeen	Christoph Hellwig	Merge xfs_get_vfsmount into it's only caller.
September 5, 2002	Nathan Scott	Andreas	attr/acl updates.
September 5, 2002	Nathan Scott	Nathan Scott	Help out a bit with the tidyup work - this keeps related aops/iops code together a bit more, and two less files.
September 5, 2002	Eric Sandeen	Eric Sandeen	Remove undocumented "mrquota" mount option which is unused in Linux.