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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] btrfs-progs: add "-r|--rename" option to "btrfs device scan"
  2026-09-11 01:33 · 0 replies in 7d · Qu Wenruo <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH 0/4] btrfs-progs: enhance the backup root behavior
  2026-09-07 05:08 · 2 replies in 7d · Qu Wenruo <hidden>

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] btrfs-progs: add "-r|--rename" option to "btrfs device scan"
  2026-09-11 · Qu Wenruo <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH 4/4] btrfs-progs: check: introduce --backup-slot option
  2026-09-07 · Qu Wenruo <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH 1/4] btrfs-progs: docs: update the rescue=usebackuproot option
  2026-09-07 · Qu Wenruo <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH RFC 11/11] mm/migrate: pass migrate_control to migrate_folio()
  2026-09-02 · Shivank Garg <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH 7/7] Remove folio_launder()
  2026-08-20 · "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] btrfs-progs: docs: add extra LLM disclosure following kernel guidelines
  2026-08-17 · Qu Wenruo <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] btrfs-progs: docs: add a note about RW degraded mount
  2026-08-12 · Qu Wenruo <hidden>
• COLD35d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 1/1] block: rename bi_bvec_done
  2026-08-06 · Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] btrfs-progs: docs: update the stability on btrfs-quota
  2026-08-06 · Qu Wenruo <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v5 03/16] block: rename bi_bvec_done
  2026-08-01 · Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
• COLD35d [PATCH v4 03/14] block: rename bi_bvec_done
  2026-07-28 · Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
• STALE66d [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>
• STALE73d IN LINUX-NEXT: 7 (7M) [PATCH 07/18] raid6: improve the public interface
  2026-05-18 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• WARM2d [PATCH v7 08/43] fscrypt: add documentation about extent encryption
  2026-05-13 · Daniel Vacek <hidden>
• STALE115d [PATCH 03/12] swap,fs: move swapfile operations to struct file_operations
  2026-05-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE115d [PATCH 02/12] swap: move boilerplate code into the core swap code
  2026-05-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE76d [PATCH 08/19] raid6: improve the public interface
  2026-05-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE131d [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>
• STALE125d [PATCH] btrfs-progs: balance: most filters can only be specified once
  2026-04-08 · Illia Bobyr <hidden>
• STALE162d [PATCH v3 6/6] docs: workqueue: document WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD affinity scope
  2026-04-01 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• STALE168d [PATCH 07/17] raid6: improve the public interface
  2026-03-24 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE177d [PATCH] btrfs-progs: docs: add a note for clear_cache mount option
  2026-02-07 · Qu Wenruo <hidden>
• STALE140d [PATCH v6 08/43] fscrypt: add documentation about extent encryption
  2026-02-06 · Daniel Vacek <hidden>
• STALE232d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v2 02/31] exportfs: add new EXPORT_OP_STABLE_HANDLES flag
  2026-01-19 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE232d [PATCH v2 01/31] Documentation: document EXPORT_OP_NOLOCKS
  2026-01-19 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE189d [PATCH 23/24] filelock: default to returning -EINVAL when ->setlease operation is NULL
  2026-01-08 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>

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.

• COLD35d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 1/1] block: rename bi_bvec_done
  2026-08-06 · Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com> · 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.

• STALE168d [PATCH 07/17] raid6: improve the public interface
  2026-03-24 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE162d [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>
• STALE76d [PATCH 08/19] raid6: improve the public interface
  2026-05-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] btrfs-progs: update the direct IO behavior notes for version 7.3
  2026-07-01 · Qu Wenruo <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] btrfs-progs: docs: update the stability on btrfs-quota
  2026-08-06 · Qu Wenruo <hidden>