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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...

packaging issue

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)?...

enhancement

Asked and answered in https://github.com/kdave/btrfs-progs/issues/728, update documentation accordingly.

docs

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...

enhancement

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...

meta/tests

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,...

enhancement
meta/tests

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...

meta/ci

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...

enhancement
docs

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% ------- ----------------- --------- ---------...

experimental
feedback-wanted

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.

docs