>> On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 12:56, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>> > Steve,
>> >
>> > Thanks for the feedback.
>> >
>> > As to what I was thinking about relating to XFS 2.0's quality. Given
>> that the EA/ACL interface has obviously been changed at both the
>> userland-kernel interface and at the kernel-xfs driver interface, I am
>> curious if this is likely to introduce any instabilities in the first
>> release, or if you believe you have performed enough regression testing
>> to be comfortable with the changes.
>> Before we go to far, it's not going to be called "XFS 2.0" :)
My mistake. I thought I read that in a previous e-mail.
>> re: quality, it's not even released yet, so it will be hard to say. The
>> first thing available will be a snapshot, with all the (lack of)
>> guarantees that come along with that.
I assume it is this snapshot that will hopefully come out a few days after
2.4.18.
>> We will eventually do another
>> "official" release, which will be much more rigorously tested at SGI
>> before it's done.
Any idea on the timing. I really prefer to work with "released" code in
preference to snapshots.
>> And of course, as the GPL says, there won't be any
>> guarantees with that either. :) We can do QA all day long, but in the
>> end you should still test it in your environment before you put it into
>> production.
Understood. As a matter of fact I ordered hardware yesterday to setup a test
environment on.
>> -Eric
>> >
>> > (Obviously I need to click on that "QA" link on your website. I'm off
>> to do that now.
>> >
Is there a QA testing write-up on the website? I thought I had seen a link to
that effect, but now I can't find it.
>> --
>> Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
>> sandeen@xxxxxxx SGI, Inc.
Greg Freemyer
Internet Engineer
Deployment and Integration Specialist
The Norcross Group
www.NorcrossGroup.com
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