Re: XFS in kernel tree

[Arjen Wolfs <arjen@euro.net>]

At 01:07 PM 6/5/01 +0200, you wrote:
> >> Bojan Smojver <bojan@binarix.com> writes:
>
>  > Any idea when XFS is going to become an official part of the 2.4 kernel
>  > tree?
>
>  This is becoming a FAQ.  (When reading this, please note I'm not
>  involved with XFS beyond being an early adopter, and someone who's got
>  a few systems using XFS for some time now)
>
>  You have to consider two things: a) 2.4 isn't supposed to get any major
>  patches (and it'd be nice if that was true for once); b) there's
>  probably still some bug fixing to do on the XFS side.  I have had some
>  trouble with XFS on one NFS server[1], but other than that, it's rock
>  solid.  Do notice this is the same lame argumentation presented by
>  people who wanted ReiserFS on the kernel, and you know what happened
>  with that one.  That said, it's very unlikely that XFS will ever go in
>  the 2.4 kernel, but it will probably go on the 2.5 at some time.

Linux 2.4.x with HIGHMEM support is still extremely unstable (read: 
completely broken), I wouldn't expect something as invasive as a new 
filesystem to go in until the kernel's core is stable (then again, i didn't 
expect 2.4.0 either until it was stable...who knows).

/Arjen