re[4]: Current Status ??

[Greg Freemyer <freemyer@NorcrossGroup.com>]

 >>  On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 12:56, Greg Freemyer wrote:
 >>  > Steve,
 >>  > 
 >>  > Thanks for the feedback.
 >>  > 
 >>  > As to what I was thinking about relating to XFS 2.0's quality.  Given
 >>  that the EA/ACL interface has obviously been changed at both the
 >>  userland-kernel interface and at the kernel-xfs driver interface, I am
 >>  curious if this is likely to introduce any instabilities in the first
 >>  release, or if you believe you have performed enough regression testing
 >>  to be comfortable with the changes.

 >>  Before we go to far, it's not going to be called "XFS 2.0"  :)

My mistake.  I thought I read that in a previous e-mail.

 >>  re: quality, it's not even released yet, so it will be hard to say.  The
 >>  first thing available will be a snapshot, with all the (lack of)
 >>  guarantees that come along with that.  

I assume it is this snapshot that will hopefully come out a few days after 2.4.18.

 >> We will eventually do another
 >>  "official" release, which will be much more rigorously tested at SGI
 >>  before it's done.  

Any idea on the timing.  I really prefer to work with "released" code in preference to snapshots.

 >>  And of course, as the GPL says, there won't be any
 >>  guarantees with that either.  :)  We can do QA all day long, but in the
 >>  end you should still test it in your environment before you put it into
 >>  production.

Understood.  As a matter of fact I ordered hardware yesterday to setup a test environment on.

 >>  -Eric

 >>  > 
 >>  > (Obviously I need to click on that "QA" link on your website.  I'm off
 >>  to do that now.
 >>  > 

Is there a QA testing write-up on the website?  I thought I had seen a link to that effect, but now I can't find it.

 >>  -- 
 >>  Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
 >>  sandeen@sgi.com   SGI, Inc.

Greg Freemyer
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