Re: Linus merges XFS

[Harald Wagener <hwagener@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Best wrote:

> My discussions with some of the Gentoo developers there seems to be a
> number of them that have/had experienced data loss in the past and I
> think some of them have a problem that it only journals metadata.
>
> Looks like XFS didn't make it in to the latest 2.4.19 kernel they have
> in testing right:
>
> gentoo-sources-2.4.19-r9
>
> I think some of the developers feel they can't recommending XFS due to
> past experiences and I think they have the impression that XFS won't or
> is hard to patch into their mainline kernel now due to other features
> they want to offer.
>
> I think that other than the metadata, their fears are unfounded but I
> don't know how to open a discussion with them them about how some of the
> problems that they experienced with early XFS up to and including 1.1
> (where the 2.4.19-r7 XFS patches come from) does not reflect on the
> sheer amount of testing and bug fixing have occured in CVS (even if you
> just consider the 2.4.19 XFS kernel sync)
>
> Perhaps I could patch a current XFS into their current (2.4.19-r9) and
> running the test suite?  Is there anything else that might be suggested.
>
> I suppose a good starting point would be to see which of their patches
> overlap with the XFS 2.4.19 or CVS code.
>
> -Mike
>
> Simon Matter wrote:
>  
>
> > Many thanks and congratulations to everyone involved!!!
> > This is what I was waiting for so long, thanks.
> >
> > Simon
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday 17 September 2002 00:05, utz lehmann wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > saw this on lwn.net. linus had merged XFS in the 2.5 tree.
> > >
> > > congratulation!
> > >
> > > and many thanks to all who made this possible.
> > >
> > >
> > > utz
> > >      
>
>  
did You do an emerge -s xfs? I know that a few day ago, xfs-sources 
still popped up.
Regards,
   Harald

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