[PATCH 0/4] xfsdump: convert to using the POSIX signal API

Bill Kendall wkendall at sgi.com
Wed Aug 3 06:57:37 CDT 2011


Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Bill,
> 
> one thing I noticed looking over the code to understand your changes
> is that there still is a lot of dead code in xfsdump.  One that
> has a lot of implications and seems fairly useless for any non-IRIX
> version is the miniroot mode.  Any chance we can rip that out?  There's

Yes, that's being used to disable multi-stream code in the Linux version.
The end of my multi-stream patch series removes the miniroot code.

> also a lot of code under #ifdef HIDDEN - it would be good to go through
> these and see we can just be removed, and if anything is still useful
> moved under more self-explaining ifdefs.

Will add it to my list.

Bill




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