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Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on linux-btrfs (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• COOLING8d [PATCH] btrfs-progs: docs: mark "usebackuproot" mount option as removed
  2026-07-04 · Qu Wenruo <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] btrfs-progs: update the direct IO behavior notes for version 7.3
  2026-07-01 · Qu Wenruo <hidden>
• COLD15d IN LINUX-NEXT: 7 (7M) [PATCH 07/18] raid6: improve the public interface
  2026-05-18 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD34d [PATCH v7 08/43] fscrypt: add documentation about extent encryption
  2026-05-13 · Daniel Vacek <hidden>
• COLD57d [PATCH 03/12] swap,fs: move swapfile operations to struct file_operations
  2026-05-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD57d [PATCH 02/12] swap: move boilerplate code into the core swap code
  2026-05-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD18d [PATCH 08/19] raid6: improve the public interface
  2026-05-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE73d [PATCH] btrfs-progs: docs: update the qgroup performance hit
  2026-05-01 · Qu Wenruo <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] btrfs-progs: docs: update the operations affected by swapfiles
  2026-04-28 · Qu Wenruo <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] btrfs-progs: docs: update the operations affected by swapfiles
  2026-04-28 · Qu Wenruo <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] btrfs-progs: reject writes if the fs has running replace/balance
  2026-04-11 · Qu Wenruo <hidden>
• STALE67d [PATCH] btrfs-progs: balance: most filters can only be specified once
  2026-04-08 · Illia Bobyr <hidden>
• STALE104d [PATCH v3 6/6] docs: workqueue: document WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD affinity scope
  2026-04-01 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• STALE110d [PATCH 07/17] raid6: improve the public interface
  2026-03-24 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE119d [PATCH] btrfs-progs: docs: add a note for clear_cache mount option
  2026-02-07 · Qu Wenruo <hidden>
• STALE82d [PATCH v6 08/43] fscrypt: add documentation about extent encryption
  2026-02-06 · Daniel Vacek <hidden>
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v2 02/31] exportfs: add new EXPORT_OP_STABLE_HANDLES flag
  2026-01-19 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE174d [PATCH v2 01/31] Documentation: document EXPORT_OP_NOLOCKS
  2026-01-19 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE131d [PATCH 23/24] filelock: default to returning -EINVAL when ->setlease operation is NULL
  2026-01-08 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE183d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH 07/11] fs: add a ->sync_lazytime method
  2026-01-08 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE183d [PATCH 05/11] fs: refactor ->update_time handling
  2026-01-08 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE188d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH 07/11] fs: add a ->sync_lazytime method
  2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE188d [PATCH 05/11] fs: refactor ->update_time handling
  2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE183d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 07/11] fs: add a ->sync_lazytime method
  2025-12-23 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE204d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 07/10] fs: add a ->sync_lazytime method
  2025-12-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE223d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH RESEND v3] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation
  2025-12-01 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE225d [PATCH v2 3/3] btrfs-progs: add block-group-tree to the default mkfs features
  2025-11-27 · Qu Wenruo <hidden>
• STALE225d [PATCH v2 1/3] btrfs-progs: disable block-group-tree feature if dependency is missing
  2025-11-27 · Qu Wenruo <hidden>
• STALE229d [PATCH 3/3] btrfs-progs: add block-group-tree to the default mkfs features
  2025-11-27 · Qu Wenruo <hidden>
• STALE234d [PATCH] btrfs-progs: docs: add warning for btrfs checksum features
  2025-11-21 · Qu Wenruo <hidden>

Needs attention (review trailers in, no pickup)

Patches with review trailers that haven't landed in mainline and haven't been Acked by a maintainer. Oldest first.

• STALE188d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH 07/11] fs: add a ->sync_lazytime method
  2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE183d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH 07/11] fs: add a ->sync_lazytime method
  2026-01-08 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v2 02/31] exportfs: add new EXPORT_OP_STABLE_HANDLES flag
  2026-01-19 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by

Quiet for 30+ days

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.

• STALE110d [PATCH 07/17] raid6: improve the public interface
  2026-03-24 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE104d [PATCH v3 6/6] docs: workqueue: document WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD affinity scope
  2026-04-01 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] btrfs-progs: reject writes if the fs has running replace/balance
  2026-04-11 · Qu Wenruo <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] btrfs-progs: docs: update the operations affected by swapfiles
  2026-04-28 · Qu Wenruo <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] btrfs-progs: docs: update the operations affected by swapfiles
  2026-04-28 · Qu Wenruo <hidden>
• COLD18d [PATCH 08/19] raid6: improve the public interface
  2026-05-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>