Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Feb 2002 00:00:24 +0100 | From | "J.A. Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: Congrats Marcelo, |
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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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