Re: xfs removed from ftp?

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 01:27, Martin Spott wrote:
> Russell Cattelan <cattelan@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 11:22, Max Clark wrote:
> >> Can anyone point me to a working mirror with the Release 1.3.1
> > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download.html
> 
> Would'nt it have been useful to put a patch for the current kernel into
> the updated Release - say for 2.4.22 ?

Yes, but given the schedule we were on, there was no time. 2.4.22
changes the file system I/O path, we would have had to backport that
to 1.3.1. The only way to get something with a reasonable guarantee
of stability was what we did. A 2.4.22 version may show up later.

Steve

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Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>