At 10:32 26-6-2001 +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
What exactly is your plans on integration of XFS with the official kernel
sources
and/or the major Linux dists? I'm a bit concerned about the following:
The FAQ explains that.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45497
>
> --- shadow/45497 Fri Jun 22 05:35:09 2001
> +++ shadow/45497.tmp.19362 Fri Jun 22 05:50:24 2001
> @@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
> Version: 7.1
> Platform: i386
> OS/Version: Linux
> -Status: NEW
> -Resolution:
> +Status: RESOLVED
> +Resolution: NOTABUG
> Severity: enhancement
> Priority: normal
> Component: kernel
> @@ -34,3 +34,12 @@
> Also note that there are certain issues related to installing kernel RPMs
> from SGI on a Red Hat 7.1 system, such as the fact that devfsd from
Red Hat
> is not quite compatible with the SGI kernel.
> +
> +------- Additional comments from arjanv@xxxxxxxxxx 2001-06-22 05:50:43
-------
> +XFS is not a candidate for 7.1 kernels unless it gets merged into Linus'
> +2.4 tree (their patch touches a lot of core code, and they add syscalls
> +which is something we only do when Linus approves them)
> +
> +
> +Also, please take bugs against the SGI kernel to SGI not us, as they
changed
> +several things we put in explicitly in order not to break things.
>
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RedHat deserves the right to withhold from merging in a relatively
intrusive patch. You don't just add complicated filesystems every day.
We're currently using XFS on a 180Gb RAID volume, by the way, and
everything looks
good so far.
It does work, and extremely well in my own case. But that does not mean it
will automatically get inserted in the mainstream kernel.
We are working on it, but it will take some time to resolve all the items
that linus asks for in a patch.
Cheers
Seth
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Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.
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