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Re: porting xfs_reno to linux

To: Ruben Porras <ruben.porras@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: porting xfs_reno to linux
From: David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:00:18 +1100
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 07:20:59PM +0100, Ruben Porras wrote:
> Let's go back to the shrink xfs theme.
> 
> >2. Move inodes out of offline AGs
> >             - On Irix, we have a program called 'xfs_reno' which
> >               converts 64 bit inode filesystems to 32 bit inode
> >               filesystems. This needs to be:
> >                     - released under the GPL (should not be a problem).
> 
> done
> 
> >                     - ported to linux
> 
> Do you mean, rewrite the program to work on kernel space,

No.

> or just port it 
> to glibc?

Port to linux. i.e. make it work and remove any tainted code that it
might contain from  Irix so we can open source it.  Barry has
already done this; the patch is here:

http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2007-10/msg00054.html

All it needs is reviewing and then xfs_reno for linux is done.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group


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