XFS Updates Submitted For Linux 4.1 Kernel
Highlights of the XFS file-system update for Linux 4.1 are:
- RENAME_WHITEOUT support. Chinner explains this feature as, "Whiteouts are used by overlayfs - it has a crazy convention that a whiteout is a character device inode with a major:minor of 0:0. Because it's not documented anywhere...
In XFS rename terms, the operation that has been done is that source (foo) has been moved to the target (bar), which is like a normal rename operation, but rather than the source being removed, it have been replaced with a whiteout."
- The per-CPU superblock accounting has been changed to use generic counters.
- A new inode mmap lock to lock page faults.
- A rework of direct I/O submission and completion to take care of some data corruption issues under DIO writes.
- FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE support to insert holes into a file via direct extent manipulation.
- Message logging improvements in case of problems.
- Bug-fixes and other code clean-ups.
The pull request in full can be viewed via the kernel mailing list.
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