Re: Why release XFS as patches against a kernel ?

[K Mitchell Russell <kmrussel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 1 May 2001, Pietje Puk wrote:

> 
> Dear SGI,
> 
> As a linux user, I really appreciate your efforts to port your high quality 
> filesystem XFS to linux as open source. However, I cannot understand your 
> release scheme. You must understand that people will just want to download a 
> tarball, `patch` the patches, and `./configure;make all;make install`. I 

Aren't these the patches here? :
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/Release-1.0/patches/

RPMs are available, as well as the bleeding edge source tree via CVS
too.

Enjoy,
Mitchell