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Re: XFS for Linux 2.4.4 query

To: Jonathan Day <jd9812@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: XFS for Linux 2.4.4 query
From: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 15:05:20 -0400
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Jonathan Day wrote:

>     Hi,
>
>    I'm running Red Hat 7.1, with the kernel upgraded to 2.4.4. The newest 
> kernel patch I can find with XFS is for 2.4.3. Normally, the difference 
> between one stable kernel and the next is not significant, and patches'll go 
> in cleanly. Unfortunately, Alan Cox has been at the Mountain Dew again, and 
> the differences are too great.
>
>    Any idea if you'll be making a 2.4.4 patch? XFS looks like an excellent 
> filing system, but I want to avoid having too many base kernel releases on my 
> computer. Since XFS shouldn't touch -too- many core components, could you 
> produce an "XFS module kit", to handle situations like this? (It would 
> probably save on hair-restorer, too.)

At this point anybody insisting on running 2.4.4 should grab the development 
tree.
http://linux-xfs.sgi.com/projects/xfs/cvsup.html

I moved the devel/current  tree up to 2.4.4 last night; any testing and 
debugging will be happening in
this tree not the 1.0 tree.

Functionally the development tree and the 1.0 are virtually identical, (for the 
moment).

I may finish generating a 1.0 core patch for 2.4.4 but I getting a bit source 
tree dizzy at this point
and may put it off for a while.


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