Re: Please pay attention to RedHat 7.x, other stable linux kernels (2.4) please ;p

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 06:09:29PM -0800, John Haverty wrote:
> Thanks for the release of 1.2 and all your work, but I would like to request 
> that because of RedHat 8's near un-useable broken state, that 1.2-release 
> patches be made for the 7.x kernel series which is conveniently unified.

Given your detailed analysis of different Red Hat versions you might have
noticed that the 7.x and 8.0 errata kernels differ only the version string
and the conmpiler usded for building..

> RedHat 8 is a desktop candy coated OS and XFS is a serious filesystem for 
> serious users and big iron machines. Also, I feel that FreeBSD is more than 
> deserving of at least an experimental port of XFS.

The XFS code is freely available - port it to FreeBSD if you think it's
wort the effort.  I doubt my employer (SGI) is interested in wasting it's
time for something like that (note that this is not an official statement,
just an educated guess)