Hello everyone, I've pushed both Yan Zheng's backref patch and Josef Bacik's allocator changes. This is a huge amount of work from both of them, and I wanted to push them out as quickly as possible so they could avoid having to rediff them. Josef's work gives us a more efficient allocator, which is also better able to find free extents of a given size. It does a better job of keeping metadata more dense in the block groups, making for a much faster fsck. Yan Zheng's patch makes the btree block back references more precise. Before they only referenced a tree and a rough key where you could find the reference to a block, and now they reference the exact parent node. This makes for much less complex space balancing code between devices, and more orderly failure recovery when things go horribly wrong. Between the fsync work and these two patches, the unstable tree is a bit more unstable than usual. We'll hammer out any problems this week. -chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
