Darrick Wong sent in the initial batch of XFS changes today for the Linux 4.18 merge window but looks like a secondary pull will come within the next week or so. This continues the recent trend of renewed feature work on this stable Linux file-system. Among the work this round includes:
- The beginnings of online file-system repair support albeit not yet ready for Linux 4.18.
- Support for being able to re-label mounted file-systems.
- Support for fallocated swap files.
- Preparations to handle sub-volume support with at this stage re-factoring the growfs code though is another feature taking more time to settle.
- Improvements to meta-data validation.
The initial list of XFS file-system driver changes for Linux 4.18 can be found via this pull request.
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