Hey everyone.

 

Tom and I felt it to be prudent to update everyone on the status of Beta 7.  We are hoping to have this release buttoned up this week and it is slated to include Multiple File System support for array devices (specifically BTRFS and XFS).  Wanted to let folks know that there have been a few things holding up this progression:

 

1)  The Linux 3.16.0 kernel.  It included a number of patches that we felt were important enough to include in the next release.  It was only recently released which is why we hadn't released Beta 7 sooner.

 

2)  XFS bug found in development.  Tom has been busting his butt getting this bug fixed and we think he may have nailed it down today, but it needs to be put through the paces of testing before we can confirm.

 

Just wanted to give everyone an update since it'd been a while since our last and let you folks know that we are hard at work to get this release out.

 

In addition, note that these aren't the only changes happening in Beta 7.  The announcement post with the release notes will provide additional details on what went into Beta 7 beyond the above, but the above were the primary things holding us back from a release.

 

Thanks everyone!

Thanks for the update guys.  Appreciated just as much as another release.

Appreciate the communication, and looking forward to the update!

IThanks Jon. Appreciate the update and hope the bug squashing goes to plan. :-)

 

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Thanks for sharing!

 

looking forward to the new beta!

Offering support for other file systems is a big plus.

 

I like ReiserFS, providing you use a UPS on your server, it is fairly "fail-safe" even though there are a lot of bugs in the implementation we endure (try copying new directories & files to a large nearly full disk and you will see what I mean).  Usually, you end up with a race condition and Samba will time out before the filesystem has finished working out what it's going to do (I'm not convinced it will ever work it out without the Samba timeout and restarting).

 

All accounts are that this problem disappears in EXT4 and XFS, although they are not as forgiving as ReiserFS and can take more "fixing" when things go wrong.

 

We are now at 50% of the disk size limit supported by ReiserFS.  Moore's Law (or to be more accurate, Kryder's Law) predicts we will exceed it sometime in 2016.

xfs bug?