E2fsprogs features and patches

Revision as of 18:05, 7 August 2007

Undo I/O manager:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/2826

64bit blk Support:

Patches submitted to the mailing list by Valerie Clement
Requires different binaries for doing 64bit support.
Unified binaries will most likely require API/ABI changes.
64bit blk support requires 64bit binaries. Breaks on PPC64 32bit user-space env.
Ted T'so suggests a different approach:
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/2845

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/2125

Uninitialized block groups:

i_version support:

Extents support:

Nano second support:

Greater than 32000 subdir support:

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+'''Undo I/O manager:'''
+* Patches submitted to the mailing list by Aneesh Kumar
+* To be merged after 1.40
+ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/2826
+'''64bit blk Support:'''
+* Patches submitted to the mailing list by Valerie Clement
+* Requires different binaries for doing 64bit support.
+* Unified binaries will most likely require API/ABI changes.
+* 64bit blk support requires 64bit binaries.  Breaks on PPC64 32bit user-space env.
+* Ted T'so suggests a different approach:
+** http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/2845
+ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/2125
+'''Uninitialized block groups:'''
+* Girish Shilamkar recently submitted new patch to the mailing list
+* Kernel patches not in mainline yet.  What's the hold up here?
+'''i_version support:'''
+* Kernel patches not in mainline yet.  Ongoing discussions.
+* Patches submitted?
+'''Extents support:'''
+* Patches submitted?
+'''Nano second support:'''
+* Patches submitted?
+'''Greater than 32000 subdir support:'''
+* Girish Shilamkar recently submitted new patch to the mailing list
+* No archive link yet.