[Cluster-devel] GFS2 git tree

2009-12-07 Thread Steven Whitehouse
Hi, Linus has pulled the -nmw tree. I'll leave it a few days before I start adding patches into the tree to avoid any confusion with those still trying to merge from linux-next, but don't let that delay you in posting any patches. If they are fixes, then they can go into the -fixes tree right

[Cluster-devel] GFS2: Metadata address space clean up

2009-12-07 Thread Steven Whitehouse
This is a heads up on a patch I'm working on to clean up the metadata address space which is used in GFS2. This is a preliminary version which passes a few basic tests. I'll probably make a few more changes before the final version. Since the start of GFS2, an extra inode has been used to store

[Cluster-devel] GFS2: Ensure uptodate inode size when using O_APPEND

2009-12-07 Thread Steven Whitehouse
The VFS reads the inode size during generic_file_aio_write() but with no locking around it. In order to get the expected result from O_APPEND opens, this patch updated the inode size before calling generic_file_aio_write() There is of course still a race here, in that there is nothing to prevent

[Cluster-devel] Cluster 3.0.6 stable release

2009-12-07 Thread Fabio M. Di Nitto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The cluster team and its community are proud to announce the 3.0.6 stable release from the STABLE3 branch. This release contains a few major bug fixes. We strongly recommend people to update your clusters. IMPORTANT NOTE: - - fence_xvm has now been