Hi, everyone.
Just a followup note to my earlier announcement about the XFS patches being
made available in Debian unstable (Sid): A day or two ago, those packages
were made available in the testing (Woody) distribution as well.
Those of you who are using Woody may now do an "apt-get install
kernel-patch-xfs" to get the patches automatically downloaded and ready for
kernel building.
As before, the packages are "kernel-patch-xfs-core" and "kernel-patch-xfs".
(The latter depends upon the former, and apt-get and dselect will recognize
this.)
Also worth noting is that Woody will become the next stable release of
Debian ("When it's ready", of course), so this means XFS is now officially
slated for inclusion in the next stable release of Debian, at least in patch
form. While I don't believe there are any plans for the Debian installer or
the default Debian kernels to support XFS, I think this is good news.
Take care,
Ed Boraas
Debian XFS kernel patch maintainer
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