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    SubjectRe: Congrats Marcelo,

    On 20020226 Steve Lord wrote:
    >On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 15:06, Andreas Dilger wrote:
    >> On Feb 26, 2002 12:38 -0800, Dennis, Jim wrote:
    >> > Now I need to know about the status of several unofficial patches:
    >>
    >> While my word is by no means official, my general understanding is:
    >>
    >> > XFS
    >>
    >> Not for 2.4 - just too many changes to the core kernel code.
    >
    >Someone has got to kill this assumption people have about XFS, it
    >makes much smaller changes than some things which have gone in,
    >the odd VM rewrite here and there to name some. Given that we now
    >have official EA system calls, the last chunk of stuff to resolve
    >is quota. This is being worked on with Jan Kara.
    >

    AFAIK, it does not so many changes but duplicates half the fs
    infrastructure already present in kernel just to have a common
    codebase with IRIX.

    Is this still true ?
    Is anybody working in kill all the dups ?

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