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SubjectRe: Why XFS not in the main kernel?
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On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 01:35, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
> Is there a reason not to include XFS in the mainstream kernel? It is very
> stable and many (including us) are using it in production environments without
> problems.
>
> Obviously, there can't be liscening issues, because XFS is released under GPL.

No one doubts XFS is stable. It is a great fs. But XFS includes some
modifications to block layer and such that people aren't ready to merge
yet -- XFS touches a lot of stuff. During 2.5, the better bits of the
modifications will be used and then XFS can be merged properly. Perhaps
once this proves stable a backport to 2.4 can be done.

Robert Love

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