At 01:07 PM 6/5/01 +0200, you wrote:
>> 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.
Linux 2.4.x with HIGHMEM support is still extremely unstable (read:
completely broken), I wouldn't expect something as invasive as a new
filesystem to go in until the kernel's core is stable (then again, i didn't
expect 2.4.0 either until it was stable...who knows).
/Arjen
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