Re: Uhhuh.. 2.4.12

["D. Stimits" <stimits@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Joseph Fannin wrote:
...
>     Alan and the other kernel developers have stated their reasons why XFS is
> not in any of the official kernels -- largely because the code duplicates too
> many functions already present in Linux.  SGI has their reasons for wanting
> to keep it that way (it's well tested, both on IRIX and now on Linux); the
> kernel developers have their own for not allowing it in the official kernels
> (it's ugly and not the Right Thing.)

I'm curious how much the boot kernel size and required ramdisk would be
reduced with a single set of functions?

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D. Stimits, stimits@xxxxxxxxxx