Hi, So yes, this is a bit early, but the tree seems to have settled down now, and I'd like to hold off any further feature patches until the subsequent merge window at this stage.
The main feature this time is the new Orlov allocator and the patches leading up to it which allow us to allocate new inodes from their own allocation context, rather than borrowing that of their parent directory. It is this change which then allows us to choose a different location for subdirectories when required. This works exactly as per the ext3 implementation from the users point of view. In addition to that, we've got a speed up in gfs2_rbm_from_block() from Bob Peterson, three locking related improvements from Dave Teigland plus a selection of smaller bug fixes and clean ups. Steve. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/