On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 10:07:39PM -0500, Stuart Luppescu wrote:
> There was a little thread recently on Linux Today about official
> inclusion of XFS in the 2.5 kernel. One interchange went like this:
>
> > when is XFS going in? anyone know ?
> Not anytime soon. The parts of XFS that overlap with generic kernel code
> have to be cut out and put into pieces that can be used by other
> filesystems.
>
> This response was written someone named whateva (rakarnik@xxxxxxxxx).
> The question is, does he know what he's talking about?
I don't think so. While it would be nice if XFS used more common
infrastructure or its infrastructure (pagebuf) would be more open to
other fs it is not an absolute requirement for merging. That's IMHO
based on merging of other file system and code, the last word has Linus
of course.
More important is probably some more cleanup of the XFS code to "linuxify"
it a bit more, but that can also occur once it is merged.
-Andi
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