From: "Jose R. Santos" Subject: New e2fsprog doc on the ext4 wiki page. Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:07:41 -0500 Message-ID: <20070724110741.65ade06e@rx8> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" Return-path: Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.146]:42734 "EHLO e6.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750911AbXGXQJk (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:09:40 -0400 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e6.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l6OGAs8V022273 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:10:54 -0400 Received: from d01av03.pok.ibm.com (d01av03.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.217]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.4) with ESMTP id l6OG9dTT395060 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:09:39 -0400 Received: from d01av03.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av03.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l6OG9dr1028161 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:09:39 -0400 Received: from austin.ibm.com (netmail2.austin.ibm.com [9.41.248.176]) by d01av03.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l6OG9clc028131 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:09:39 -0400 Received: from rx8 (rx8.austin.ibm.com [9.41.41.30]) by austin.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l6OG9cpF026270 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:09:38 -0500 Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org Hi folks As discussed in the conference call, we are going to create a new doc on the ext4 wiki dedicated to track the development of some of the features needed in e2fsprogs. The page will consist of mostly changes needed in order to keep e2fsprogs up to date with mainline ext4 kernel code. I don't plan to add bug fixes, cleanup or trivial changes to the page as this would make it hard to keep the page up to date. The link to the page will be: http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php?title=E2fsprogs_features_and_patches&action=edit Comments on what you would like to see of this page or in the initial list of features I have gather below are welcome. Undo I/O manager: -Patches submited 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 submited 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 submited new patch to the mailing list - Kernel patches not in mainline yet. What's the hold up here? - No archive link yet. i_version support: - Kernel patches not in mainline yet. Ongoing discussions. - Patches submitted? ext4migrate: - Patches submited to the mailing list by Aneesh Kumar http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/1395 Extents support: - Patches submitted? Nano second support: - Patches submitted? Greater than 32000 subdir support: - Girish Shilamkar recently submited new patch to the mailing list - No archive link yet. -JRS