> >>>>> "AW" == Arjen Wolfs <arjen@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> AW> I wouldn't expect something as invasive as a new filesystem to go in
> AW> until the kernel's core is stable (then again, i didn't expect 2.4.0
> AW> either until it was stable...who knows).
>
> I believe a new filesystem went in in 2.4.5. See fs/freevxfs.
>
> The salient point is that adding this FS didn't require changes anywhere
> else in the kernel; it just added some files. If XFS did the same, or if
> the non-localized parts could be fed in slowly until all of the
> infrastructure is in place, then it would probably be accepted without
> issue.
>
This is in fact happening to a certain extent, 2.4.6-pre1 removes the need
for one particular change we had in the core kernel for example.
Steve
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