Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 01 Nov 2002 00:17:57 +0100 | From | Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <> | Subject | Re: Xiafs inclusion in 2.5? |
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H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > > Hello Linus, > > > > somewhere back in 2000, you [Linus Torvalds] wrote: > > > Who still remembers xiafs? We have 33 different filesystems in > > > the kernel tree - something that is quite impressive, and something > > > that I don't think anybody else has ever tried to support. > > > But we could have had 34. > > > > Out of curiosity, would you reaccept xiafs in 2.5, if it was cleaned > > up and forward ported to use the new interfaces? > > And if you accept it, what's the latest date I could submit it? > > Technically, it is a regression, ;-) so the feature freeze date > > might not apply. > > > > Not to be flippant, but really... what's the point? >
There are several: - Trying to fulfill what I percieve to be a wish of Linus which nobody has cared for - Being able to recover *very* old data without having to dig out a compiler+computer suitable for 2.0 kernels - Linux is supposed to be fun (The point which matters)
Regards, Carl-Daniel
P.S. Please CC me because my subscription to lkml seems to be hosed.
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