A short digression on FOSS (Re: understanding speculative preallocation)

[Jay Ashworth]

> The thing is, that RHEL XFS and mainline XFS seem to have drifted
> apart a good deal, and as result, for an outsider, it is very
> difficult to correlate patches between the two branches.

Exactly why I recommended the OP talk to the appropriate kernel packagers.

How my clariyfing that turned into my being an entitled snobby jerk is
entirely unclear to me.

Cheers,
-- jra
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