pushing out a new xfsprogs release, was Re: [PATCH] xfsprogs: fix unaligned access in libxfs

[Felix Blyakher]

On Aug 28, 2009, at 1:24 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:15:51AM -0700, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> Looks good to me.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen at sandeen.net>
>
> Thanks.  What do people thing about pushing out a 3.0.3 xfsprogs
> release?
>
> Since 3.0.1 (discounting 3.0.2 as a Debian-only thing quickly  
> following
> 3.0.1): we have the following changes the list below.  It's not a  
> whole
> lot, but everything is relatively small fixes, the the unaligned thing
> makes the 3.0 series so far unusable on strict alignment platforms.

Seems like a bunch of useful changes in xfs_repair, xfs_db and xfs_io.

Also it's passed 3 months since the last release, and it's a good idea
to keep the quarterly update.

> If we go for it I can update the CHANGES ASAP for the release,

I'll package it up right after that.

> and
> ater that we can start putting in changes for a 3.1.0 release - I have
> Barry's repair speedups ready for a wider audience, Eric has the
> patch to make the lazy sb counters default and I can do the long
> needed resync with the kernel code.

Yep, those bigger changes would be right for 3.1.0 release.

Felix

>
>
>
> Changes from 3.0.1 to HEAD:
>
>
>
> Christoph Hellwig (3):
>      add release.sh
>      Merge branch 'master' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/cmds/xfsprogs
>      xfsprogs: fix unaligned access in libxfs
>
> David Chinner (1):
>      mkfs: allow to make larger logs
>
> Eric Sandeen (11):
>      xfsprogs: fix readline/editline for xfs_io and xfs_quota
>      xfs_io: add fallocate command
>      Update CHANGES file for recent commits
>      xfs_repair: catch bad depth in traverse_int_dir2block
>      xfs_io: fix test for fallocate on 32bit boxes
>      xfs_repair: fix agcount*agblocks overflows
>      xfs_metadump: agcount*agblocks overflow
>      xfs_repair: clear inodes in incorrect btree format
>      the freesp doesn't support "-f" so take it out of the usage().
>      xfs_db: do bounds checking in frag's scanfunc_bmap
>      xfs_io: actually issue 0 size writes
>
> Felix Blyakher (2):
>      Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/ 
> xfsprogs-dev
>      3.0.1 release
>
> Nathan Scott (2):
>      Resolve minor man page warnings reported by lintian tool.
>      Debian packaging updates, and bumped minor version to 3.0.2.
>
> Nathaniel W. Turner (1):
>      xfs_repair: open filesystem device exclusively
>
> Robert Herndon (1):
>      add -x flags to include/install-sh
>