Re: [Announce] XFS 1.1 Prerelease 2 available for testing

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:30:37PM +0000, Chris Tooley wrote:
> That is one of the good things about going through a distribution kernel
> first.  There is usually someone there that give it a once over and get
> it pushed up to Linus for another look over.  Since SGI already creates
> RedHat Installers and RPMs for RedHat, it seems like a convenient target
> distro.

There are some distributions that take random features into their
kernels, others consider they maintainability of these extra features,
and for a complex filesystem that manages ondisk structures the risc
involved with providing support to customers years later is very high.

> And, Christoph, I thought ACL/EA went into the kernel at 2.5.3 which was
> before JFS at 2.5.6 ...

I know - I'm working hard on getting EA support working..

        Christoph

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Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.