On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 00:42:21 +1100 Keith Owens <Keith Owens
<kaos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 14:14:29 +0100,
> Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >At 12:33 24-11-2001 +0100, Jurgen Kramer wrote:
> >>In 2.4.15 ext3 is already included (since 2.4.15pre2). So wait for a
> >>2.4.15 XFS patch?
> >
> >It seems like they had a week off, we might see it next week.
> The XFS CVS tree is up to 2.4.15-pre7, including ext3. So the ext3
> merge with XFS has already been done in CVS.
> However 2.4.15 has an inode bug that breaks all(?) file systems, not
> good. I can't speak for Steve Lord, Eric Sandeen or other XFS people,
> but I would not want to merge XFS past 2.4.15-pre7 until this bug is
> fixed by Linus.
For those who are feeling impatient and don't manage to keep up with
things Alexander Viro has posted a patch that seems to fix this. When
it will actually make Linus/Marcello tree is another matter.
Patch is at
http://uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0.111.2/1665.html
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