From: Avantika Mathur LTC Subject: ext4 devel interlock meeting minutes (Sept. 13, 2006) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 09:20:07 -0700 Message-ID: <45098137.5040809@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.149]:7650 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750974AbWINQUM (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:20:12 -0400 Received: from d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.106]) by e31.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k8EGK9PL024155 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:20:09 -0400 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (d03av03.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.169]) by d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/NCO v8.1.1) with ESMTP id k8EGK8cH221488 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:20:08 -0600 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k8EGK8kI016032 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:20:08 -0600 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (IBM-DD6E2EC41B8.beaverton.ibm.com [9.47.16.82]) by d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k8EGK7UJ015951 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:20:08 -0600 To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org Below are minutes from yesterday's interlock call. ----- Ext4 Developer Interlock Call: 9/13/06 Meeting Minutes Attendees: Shaggy(Dave Kleikamp), Suparna Bhattacharya, Jean-Noel, Alexadre Ratchov, Badari Pulavarty, Andreas Dilger, Eric Sandeen, Avantika Mathur 1. Shaggy has started porting ext4 patches to the current -mm tree. He hopes to have this done in the next few days, and will send out the updated series. Andrew Morton wants to get these patches in soon after 2.6.19-rc1 2. Ext3 patches are in the -mm tree waiting for 2.6.19-rc1 3. All of Eric's patches seem to be in e2fsprogs. There may be items left to fix in e2Image. Andreas' fixes are also in e2fsprogs 4. Large group descriptor patches: The Bull Team is currently testing these patches. They are also looking at issues with compatibility with current on disk filesystems with small group descriptors. 5. Andreas mentioned that resizing may not work past 16 TB, it is something that should be addressed for when the 64 bit incompat flag is set. 6. Suparna asked about Preallocation support, Shaggy is busy with rebasing the ext4 patches and is not able to work on this currently. 7. Andreas will be sending out partial inode patch. Currently it needs a lot of work, but will be looking for feedback and help. 8. The Bull team has been working on a patch to add the 'change attribute' to ext3. This is a counter incremented each time an inode is changed. Alexandre asked about using OS dependent reserved fields in the on-disk structure for this counter. Alexandre will be posting these patches today for review. ---- Avantika Mathur IBM LTC-kernel team