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Re: Linus merges XFS

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Subject: Re: Linus merges XFS
From: Ethan Benson <erbenson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 11:54:50 -0800
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On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 09:34:59AM -0600, Michael Best wrote:
> Yes, the xfs-sources are using the 2.4.19 kernel tree.
> 
> The gentoo-sources-2.4.19-r7 contains the older xfs 1.1 code, the new
> proposed gentoo-sources-2.4.19-r9 does not contain xfs at all.

and they expect that to work? 1.1 was made for 2.4.18, its not all
that surprising it doesn't get along with 2.4.19, especially with the
half dozen other random patches they added alongside.

i always suspected the gentoo people were just spewing FUD when one
told me `XFS is vile crap' now im sure.

> But based on comments I've read, it probably better for XFS to not be
> included and force people to use the xfs-sources tree.

yes, since they obviously don't know how to do it right.

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Ethan Benson
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