On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 17:22, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:33:11 +0800,
> Federico Sevilla III <jijo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >I'm curious: will it make sense to release split patches for 2.4.22 like
> >those available for 2.4.21, even if CVS doesn't have the full 2.4.22-xfs
> >yet while waiting for the approval due to the crypto merge? Or will
> >split patches for 2.4.22 require the same approval anyway?
>
> Both CVS and the split patches are generated from the SGI internal XFS
> tree. That tree is still at 2.4.21, I cannot generate split patches
> for 2.4.22 until there is an official[*] SGI internal version of XFS
> for 2.4.22.
>
> [*] I know about Russell Cattelan's patches for 2.4.22 XFS but AFAIK
> they have not been blessed by the SGI XFS team. Hint, hint.
What I'm still part of the XFS team, well for another month anyways. :-)
There has been some question of the directio support in 2.4.22 but it
involved parallel access to the same file via different threads,
at this point it has not proved to be broken just not as fast as it
could be.
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