Re: Btrfs trees for linux-next

2008-12-15 Thread Kay Sievers
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 02:37, Chris Mason wrote: > On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 23:55 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 22:03, Andreas Dilger wrote: >> > On Dec 11, 2008 09:43 -0500, Chris Mason wrote: >> >> The multi-device code uses a very simple brute force scan from userland >>

Re: Btrfs trees for linux-next

2008-12-15 Thread Chris Mason
On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 23:55 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 22:03, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > On Dec 11, 2008 09:43 -0500, Chris Mason wrote: > >> The multi-device code uses a very simple brute force scan from userland > >> to populate the list of devices that belong to a given

Re: Btrfs trees for linux-next

2008-12-15 Thread Kay Sievers
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 22:03, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Dec 11, 2008 09:43 -0500, Chris Mason wrote: >> The multi-device code uses a very simple brute force scan from userland >> to populate the list of devices that belong to a given FS. Kay Sievers >> has some ideas on hotplug magic to make t

Re: Btrfs trees for linux-next

2008-12-15 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Dec 11, 2008 09:43 -0500, Chris Mason wrote: > The multi-device code uses a very simple brute force scan from userland > to populate the list of devices that belong to a given FS. Kay Sievers > has some ideas on hotplug magic to make this less dumb. (The scan isn't > required for single devic

Re: Btrfs trees for linux-next

2008-12-11 Thread Chris Mason
On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 20:06 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:14:36 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Andrew, > > > > On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:34:56 -0500 Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Just an update, while I still have a long todo li

Re: Btrfs trees for linux-next

2008-12-10 Thread Stephen Rothwell
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:06:04 -0800 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd prefer that it go into linux-next in the usual fashion. But the > first step is review.. OK, I wasn't sure where it was up to (not being a file system person). -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell[EMA

Re: Btrfs trees for linux-next

2008-12-10 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:14:36 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:34:56 -0500 Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Just an update, while I still have a long todo list and plenty of things > > to fix in the code, these src trees have b

Re: Btrfs trees for linux-next

2008-12-10 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Andrew, On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:34:56 -0500 Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just an update, while I still have a long todo list and plenty of things > to fix in the code, these src trees have been updated with a disk format > I hope to maintain compatibility with from here on. There

Re: Btrfs trees for linux-next

2008-12-10 Thread Chris Mason
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 07:18 -0500, Chris Mason wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've updated the btrfs git trees to 2.6.28-rc5 and tested against > linux-next. > > We've knocked a bunch of things off the todo list since I last posted, > including compression (mount -o compress) and the ability to cre

Btrfs trees for linux-next

2008-11-20 Thread Chris Mason
Hello everyone, I've updated the btrfs git trees to 2.6.28-rc5 and tested against linux-next. We've knocked a bunch of things off the todo list since I last posted, including compression (mount -o compress) and the ability to create subvols and snapshots anywhere in the FS. There are a small num