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Re: XFS as a module for RH AS or ES

To: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: XFS as a module for RH AS or ES
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 22:13:30 +0100
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx, Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <3EF9FF5A.6000703@myrealbox.com>; from nwourms@myrealbox.com on Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:00:26PM -0400
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:00:26PM -0400, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> I'm really sorry for spreading that FUD earlier, apparently my interdiff 
> was acting up and not accurately reporting differences (and I didn't 
> actually look in the patch to verify xfs' removal).  So, in actuality, 
> they have NOT stripped the xfs from the -ac series patch.  So, long 
> story short, it is in there.  Unfortunately, the kernel configs still 
> indicate that they aren't building any kernels (boot or otherwise) with 
> modular or builtin xfs support :-/.  XFS-ready is better than nothing, I 
> suppose.  To reiterate, this seems to be only applicable to their 
> forthcoming Enterprise (ES/AS) kernels.  I have no idea what Arjan is 
> going to do with the regular kernel, the current rawhide for it is quite 
> featureless...

The last RH AS3 kernel I have around here should be able to support a
loadable, external XFS module out of the box.  The XFS codebase would
need some minor changes but it's definately doable.  Let's see whether
they use their chance to make even more a mess from their tree until
the final release...


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