Re: [Announce] XFS 1.1 Prerelease 2 available for testing

[Tony Gale <gale@syntax.dstl.gov.uk>]

On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 15:29, Steve Lord wrote:
> 
> So, it is OK for people to rip the guts out of the VM every other week
> and for Al Viro to apply so many patches the filesystem API that your
> head spins, but a filesystem which does anything outside the VFS box
> is regarded as an invasion.
> 
> Gutting XFS to remove all the code which would not work without kernel
> changes removes a lot of the reasons people use XFS in the first place.
> 

Yes, I don't believe that's a goer.

But, now you've bitten Steve, why aren't you/SGI pushing XFS
split-patches at Linus/Al/lkml regularly?

Is it because you don't think they are ready? I don't agree that
advertising is the way to get things into the kernel - pure bloody
mindedness seems more effective.

You are at least likely to get some feedback on why they aren't
currently being included.

-tony