Short answer: It's up to Linus, ask him. :)
Long answer: Getting XFS into 2.5 will take work, both technical and
political.
Technical - The 2.5 block layer has changed quite a bit
already (as of 2.5.1-pre2, I believe) and at least the pagebuf interface
will need to be modified to handle this. Steve has started looking at the
block layer modifications.
Political - (maybe this is technical as well) - previous discussions on
LKML have shown that some of the Linux hackers would like to see the XFS
<-> Linux interface changed. You can check the archives for this
discussion, but this is the sort of thing that will have to be worked out
for XFS to get into 2.5, I think.
We do have a 2.5 tree internally, and we're working on it. It will be
exported via CVS sometime soon.
-Eric
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Ayose wrote:
> In 2.5 will be added XFS?
>
> I have seen a lot of discussions about that inclussion, but I can't get
> a definitive answer :(
>
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