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Re: XFS in the 2.5 kernel

To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: XFS in the 2.5 kernel
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 13:14:48 +0100
Cc: Stuart Luppescu <s-luppescu@uchicago.edu>, Linux-xfs list <linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>
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On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:36:57PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> I don't think so. While it would be nice if XFS used more common
> infrastructure or its infrastructure (pagebuf) would be more open to 
> other fs it is not an absolute requirement for merging.  That's IMHO
> based on merging of other file system and code, the last word has Linus 
> of course.

Pagebuf is basically useable by other filesystems.  For example I think
I could port JFS to use it as backing for it's metapges - it just far
too complex for JFS's needs so I don't see any point in doing so.

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