>> Bojan Smojver <bojan@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Any idea when XFS is going to become an official part of the 2.4 kernel
> tree?
This is becoming a FAQ. (When reading this, please note I'm not
involved with XFS beyond being an early adopter, and someone who's got
a few systems using XFS for some time now)
You have to consider two things: a) 2.4 isn't supposed to get any major
patches (and it'd be nice if that was true for once); b) there's
probably still some bug fixing to do on the XFS side. I have had some
trouble with XFS on one NFS server[1], but other than that, it's rock
solid. Do notice this is the same lame argumentation presented by
people who wanted ReiserFS on the kernel, and you know what happened
with that one. That said, it's very unlikely that XFS will ever go in
the 2.4 kernel, but it will probably go on the 2.5 at some time.
HTH,
Marcelo
[1] I'm not 100% sure this was an XFS problem, but other people
panicked and pulled the plug without proper investigation of the
problem. The machine was doing a very small ammount of NFS serving
(15-20 mounts tops scattered among 5-8 clients) out of a 150 GB
external RAID (IDE) system hooked to a SCSI controller. The kernel
oops'ed a couple of times, but because of a configuration error on
my part, I couldn't get a decent call trace and the oops log alone
was useless. Ever since the RAID was moved to another box
(XFS/IRIX) I haven't been able to reproduce the problem. I suspect
the problem was the SCSI controller (which is also gone), but I
haven't been able to test this...
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