XFS status update for January 2012

[Coert Waagmeester]

On 02/27/2012 12:36 PM, Richard Ems wrote:
> On 02/25/2012 01:02 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> January saw the release of Linux 3.2, which as usual included a large
>> number of XFS changes, most notably an large speedup for removing files
>> that have external attribute blocks, speedups and livelock fixes for
>> sync while doing heavy I/O, and large internal cleanups of the inode
>> block map handling.  The diffstat for XFS in Linux 3.2 is:
>>
>>   54 files changed, 2414 insertions(+), 2625 deletions(-)
>>
>> which is slightly below the average of the last releases.
>>
>> In the meantime development for 3.3 went ahead full speed, including
>> the removal of the deprecated pre-delaylog logging code, various
>> quota cleanups, a shrink of the inode, a great simplification of the file
>> write path as well as the usual batch of fixes and cleanups.
>>
>> On the userland side xfs_repair saw various major fixes and speedups,
>> with few other fixes thrown in, while xfsdump got two commits fixing
>> longer standing issues recently reported on the mailing list.  For
>> xfstests January was an extremely slow month, seeing only two new test cases
>> and less than a handful of other updates.
>
> Many thanks to all of your for the good work and support on the mailing
> list !
>
> cheers,
> Richard
>
>

Hello Richard,

Here I am running gentoo with kernel 3.2
In the 2.6 era I always mounted my xfs file systems with the delaylog 
option, is this still necessary? Is delaylog now default?


Kind regards,
Coert Waagmeester