kdave
kdave
Hi, people of reddit asked (https://old.reddit.com/r/kernel/comments/xp2o53/why_is_the_version_of_zstd_in_the_kernel_outdated/) about updating the linux port of zstd to newer version. This has been promised back then when 1.4.10 was synced a year ago and...
Continued as a separate issue from https://github.com/kdave/btrfs-progs/issues/679#issuecomment-1750439414: "... but would this raid-stripe-tree make it possible to re-balance raid1 data paired on specific devices (if balance was enhanced to support such)?...
Asked and answered in https://github.com/kdave/btrfs-progs/issues/728, update documentation accordingly.
There's a libc provided (pseudo)random generator using `/dev/urandom` seed and `jrand48`. When there's a crypto library configured as backend we can use their random number libraries, most of them provide...
There's support for `ccache` in GH actions, https://github.com/hendrikmuhs/ccache-action, example https://github.com/KeyviDev/keyvi/blob/master/.github/workflows/keyvi.yml . Add it to the devel workflow that runs build multiple times. Maybe the cache can be shared among the...
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/[email protected]/T/#u With recent problems in CI where loop devices are not recognized after mkfs and fail mount we need to revisit how the devices are used. Outlined in the link,...
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/CAEg-Je8L7jieKdoWoZBuBZ6RdXwvwrx04AB0fOZF1fr5Pb-o1g@mail.gmail.com/ * btrfs-assistant * buildah * cri-o * podman * skopeo * containerd * moby/docker * snapper * source-to-image The build tests are now done manually and not for all...
The ionice (parameter -c) used to limit IO impact on the system stopped working when CFQ io scheduler wast dropped and replaced by mq-deadline. The latter does not implement it...
New command has been added in v6.1 to list all block groups/chunks. Not yet finalized. Example output: ``` PNumber Type PStart Length PEnd Age LStart Usage% ------- ----------------- --------- ---------...
32bit inode number overflow got deleted with inode_cache feature (https://github.com/kdave/btrfs-progs/commit/1af37385e258aabc684484aff8e5def442ada9bb) but the problems can still happen so we should have it documented. Also add other 32bit compatibility problems.