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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