Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:50:34 -0800 Received: from mail15.jump.net ([206.196.91.15]:18366 "EHLO mail15.jump.net") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:50:14 -0800 Received: from sgi.com (aus-dsl-dhcp1-26.customer.jump.net [63.163.168.26]) by mail15.jump.net (8.10.2/) with ESMTP id f0T0oD325397 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 18:50:13 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3A74BE4A.862DBFE@sgi.com> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 18:50:18 -0600 From: Eric Sandeen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-SGI_XFS_PRsmp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: XFS prerelease announcement References: <20010128175654.C6620@pervalidus> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-xfs-outgoing Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > So, what's really added/modified and gets used by > /usr/src/linux/linux-2.4.0 or whatever. And can we expect a > small patch for a future release? Oh, but to answer your second question, the only directories you really need are the patched linux source tree (linux/), and the cmds/ directory. SOURCES and SPECS are all RPM-build specific files (which account for about 8 megs of the expanded patch size), and SCRIPTS is for maintenance. There's also a top level Makefile (above linux/ and cmds/) that you can ignore. You can delete them all, and just build your kernel from the linux/ directory, and build the xfs tools from cmds/ See http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/pr_source.html for details. -Eric