Messages in this thread | | | From | Jim Mostek <> | Subject | Re: SGI's xfs going opensource | Date | Wed, 2 Jun 1999 08:59:02 -0500 (CDT) |
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In my build area, I have added XFS to the config tools and it is module or statically selectable (OFF, too). I imagine this is the way it will be released.
Jim
> >Hi! > >> > > changes we might be making for XFS. Note however that XFS itself >> > > is not part of the kernel but rather a loadable module. The terms >> > >> > Well, to be able to claim all that good-will that steams from words >> > like donation and open-source, >> > I really hope the module will be released in SOURCE form. >> > A binary module doesn't strike me as particulary exiting nor flexible >> > enough to gain required momentum.. >> > >> > /Fredrik Lundholm >> > exce7@ce.chalmers.se >> >> As our press announcement said, XFS will be released in open source. >> That does not contradict/preclude its being structured as a loadable >> module. XFS is a pretty large file system (100k+ lines of code) and >> it wouldn't be reasonable for something that large to be statically >> linked with the kernel, as there are probably lots of applications >> and configurations that don't need its capabilities. > >No. Our kernels are configurable, so you can select what components >you want to have in your kernel. It is something that predates >modules. [So yes, even if ext2 is normally compiled into kernel, I can >select in config that I want it out, or I can select that I want it as >module. Please retain same options for xfs.] > >And you definitely _do_ want XFS compiled into kernel, because fs for >your / partition has to be compiled in. It would be very bad if I had >to have small ext2 partition there just for insmoding xfs, what do you >think? > > Pavel >-- >I'm really pavel@ucw.cz. Look at http://195.113.31.123/~pavel. Pavel >Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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