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Re: Integration of xfs into actual kernels

To: Gerd Bitzer <gbitzer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Integration of xfs into actual kernels
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <mkp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 16 Sep 2001 16:59:06 -0400
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>>>>> "Gerd" == Gerd Bitzer <gbitzer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Gerd> I'd like to use XFS frequently, and preferably for my /boot and
Gerd> /root slices. But it is always a circumstance to stay in sync
Gerd> with the actual kernel release, first one has to grab the actual
Gerd> kernel or the kernelpatch, then one has to wait until you have
Gerd> also released a patch and also has to patch it into the kernel
Gerd> tree (and also one has to preserver an unpatched
Gerd> kernelsourcetree which first could be patched up to the next
Gerd> release, before your patches could also be patched in), and then
Gerd> the recompilation (which sometimes also offers some
Gerd> surprises). 

Or you can simply use our development CVS tree which is almost always
up to date.


Gerd> Hopefully XFS would be integrated into the standard kernel tree
Gerd> as soon as possible, to ease this boring process.

Gerd> Could you please tell me when this may be happening ?

Whenever Linus feels like it...

-- 
Martin K. Petersen, Principal Linux Consultant, Linuxcare, Inc.
mkp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, http://www.linuxcare.com/
SGI XFS for Linux Developer, http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/


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