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    SubjectRe: XFS for 2.4
    On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 06:23:46PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
    > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:20:37AM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
    > > So what's wrong with asking $VFS_MAINTAINER to refresh Marcelo's memory
    > > about that?
    >
    > There is no such thing as a VFS maintainer. At least Al doesn't want
    > to be in that position and I guess no one else would qualify (maybe
    > akpm)

    Generally I don't mind doing that kind of work. *However*, in case of
    XFS I'm very deliberately Not Touching That(tm). Reason: I'm deeply
    prejudiced against that codebase and (long-standing) situation with
    its evolution. IOW, I'm not the right guy to ask for comments.

    <rant type=tired>
    XFS codebase is bloated by attempt to imitate VFS interface of inferior
    operating system (IRIX) and by demand to keep the common codebase between
    Linux and IRIX versions, IRIX one being the master. And that's not going
    to change. Moreover, locking in it is such that... well, I would not
    recommend Larry to look at it - it's a fscking mess that is, AFAICS, long
    past the point where maintainers had lost any control over it. Basically,
    all it demonstrates is that with sufficient thrust pigs fly^W^Wanything
    can be debugged to the point where common codepaths almost never break.
    </rant>

    I'm not touching that animal. I would trust hch or akpm opinion on it,
    but that's it - I know that they have enough clue to do it right. Aside
    of that, count me out whenever XFS is concerned.
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