On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Jos Poortvliet
Hi all,
I've received a few requests already from ppl asking "what will the next openSUSE release bring". Now I know a few things being worked on, from Webpin2 to the bretzn/appstream stuff. And of course the obvious "latest software packages". But I guess there are other ideas people would like to work on, right?
I mentioned in the thread about BTRFS that EXT3/EXT4 patches exist to add snapshot functionality. Unlike BTRFS, these snapshots are filesystem wide. ie. You issue a snapshot request for the entire filesystem. Then you can mount the snapshot readonly and browse around to see the filesystem as it was. Amir Goldstein is the main developer and who marketing should interview if they want to understand what the patches do now and how they could be integrated into opensuse in the future. I reached out to the team (including Amir) and just this weekend created a home project to work on packaging next4 for opensuse factory, but I'm focused on ext4 patches only. That team is pushing to get their code into vanilla in .40 or .41, so even without specific effort it should show up in some sense for the next opensuse release. But I think we need to get the functionality into factory ASAP so other packages can start to build functionality around snapshots. I hope the functionality will make it into ext4 for the next release of opensuse. Their homepage is: http://next3.sourceforge.net/ The code I'm packaging is at: https://github.com/amir73il/ext4-snapshots Note: I haven't even pulled the code yet. It depends on the 2.6.39 kernel. There is a linux-next (2.6.39) package in OBS, but it isn't building at present. Just an hour ago I sent a email to the maintainer to find out the status of that project. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org