> Long time no post: SourceForge, RedHat Avenue
>
> Two quick, non-technical issues ...
>
> 2. Has RedHat taken any interest in a beta program or other early
> adopter attitude towards XFS? If not, how about VA Linux? Anyone
> know of the status of the Ext3 port to kernel 2.4 (and if that is
> what either are waiting on)? I submitted some "Request For
> Enhancement" Bugzilla tickets at the request of one of their
> employees (mainly just package additions that they'll probably favor
> for at least the Powertools CD), but I'm wondering if the RFE c/o
> Bugzilla route might be a good way to poke them on XFS as well? **
ext3 for 2.4 is being worked on, look on the linux-fsdevel list for
pointers, Stephen Tweedie has other people working on the port as
he is busy.
Things are happening slowly, we should start to appear in Debian, there
is a Mandrake installer patch, other things are happening, but I will
leave it to distributions to say things if they want to.
>
> 3. Did anyone read Hans Reiser's comments on non-ReiserFS
> "jealousy" that it was adopted in kernel 2.4.1 (while others were
> not)? I'm sure he's got his reasons (I can think of one my own
> posts where he saw such attitudes ;-), but I'm still curious as to
> why XFS has not been considered for adoption into the stock kernel
> yet myself (or at least considered, please tell me if this is no
> longer true)? Maybe that is what RedHat is ultimately waiting on?
Hmm, no jealousy here, I knew that was coming from about July last year
when Linus told me at Usenix that he would be putting reiserfs in 2.4.1.
It is not a matter of 'consideration' it is a matter of asking for inclusion,
apart from a badly timed submission to Alan Cox (in the middle of RedHat's
7.1 push) I have not asked anyone to include xfs in their kernel yet. We
are not feature complete yet, and while I do not think we will wait until
we are, I do have a list of bugs I need to shoot, and possibly one chunk
of code which will bounce off Linus very quickly.
Steve
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