Hi, let me announce the release of btrfs-progs version 3.18. There are updates to UI and several enhancements of check/repair. About 100 commits from 14 contributors, thank you all!
Tarballs: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/kdave/btrfs-progs/ Git: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/btrfs-progs.git Major user-visible changes: * mkfs - skinny-metadata feature is now on by default, first introduced in kernel 3.10 New subcommands: * filesystem usage - give an overview of fs usage in a way that's more comprehensible than existing 'fi df' * on kernels < 3.18: requires root due to restricted ioctl FS_INFO * raid 5/6 numbers may be missing due to restricte ioctl (TREE_SEARCH) * that's used to calculate the numbers * device usage - more detailed information about per-device allocations * same restrictions as for 'fi usage' New features, options: * check * option to set a different tree root byte number * ability to link lost files to lost+found, caused by a recent kernel bug * repair of severely corrupted fs (use with care): * recover from corrupted b-tree * ability to rebuild inode items from other items * improved rebuilding of extent tree with snapshots * convert * option to show progress * subvol create - print the commit mode inline, print the global mode only if --verbose Other updates: * musl-libc build support * bugfixes for coverity reports * new test images, testing framework * documentation -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
