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Re: XFS to main kernel source

To: "Steve Wolfe" <nw@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: XFS to main kernel source
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 13:31:18 -0500
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Message from "Steve Wolfe" <nw@xxxxxxxxx> of "Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:17:10 MDT." <003601c14200$77893b00$50824e40@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > When will be the XFS patch integrated to main tree?
> 
>   (snip)
> 
> >> I'm really fed up with trying to get linux-2.4.9 + acXX or preXX + xfs
> >> together.
> 
> (snip)
> 
> >>> I would hold off on 2.4.10 - there have been some major kernel changes
> >>> which will affect XFS, it may take a while to shake out the bugs. The
> 2.4.9
> >>> version appears to be running OK. I would see if you get any other
> feedback
> 
>   I'd just like to add, for the record, that while I really do love XFS,
> because of things like the above statement from Steve Lord, I really can't
> use it on my production machines until it is tied into the regular kernel
> tree.  I imagine that you're already doing everything that you can to get
> it integrated, I'm not griping, just giving (hopefully) constructive
> feedback.

Well, since the changes are being made to the Linux VM, not to XFS,
if I was in your situation I would ask myself if I should be running recent
2.4 kernels in production with any filesystem. I am not convinced that being
in the mainline kernel is much of a help right now.

Oh, and we are not the ones who need this form of feedback ;-)

Steve



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