Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: Congrats Marcelo, | Date | Mon, 25 Feb 2002 00:39:36 +0100 |
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On February 26, 2002 10:56 pm, 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.
I'd really like to see XFS go in, but don't you think 2.5 is the place, with a view to 2.4 submission in due course?
As far as making the case goes, do you have time to make a list of places where XFS goes outside fs/xfs, and why?
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