Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:47:01 +0200 | From | Martin Knoblauch <> | Subject | Re: XFS in the main kernel |
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Stephen Lord wrote: > > Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > > > > definitely. Unless XFS is in the mainline kernel (marked as > >experimantal if necessary) it will not get good exposure. > > > > The most important (only) reason I do not use it (and recommend our > >customers against using it) is that at the moment it is impossible to > >track both the kernel and XFS at the same time. This is a shame, because > >I think that for some application XFS is superior to the other > >alternatives (can be said about the other alternatives to :-). > > > > You would be surprised about the level of exposure XFS is getting, a lot > more > than you might realize. It is in everything from settop boxes and fiber > channel > switches to NAS boxes, those folks in general do not want to advertise. > Here are > a few larger scale installations out there: > > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/xfs_users.html > > Steve Steve,
no question that those are seriour users that give you serious feedback. And if you call that exposure, I am not going to argue. It is your project, it is your marketing. (And *I* am not going to argue about SGI marketing :-(
From a mainline point of view XFS on Linux will only be successfull if it is "in the kernel". Fully maintained and "Linus approved". I am not sure when SGI started the port (could even go back to the time when I worked for them, late 1997). Definitely quite some time. By now it should be in the kernel. Maybe marked "experimental". As I see it now EXT3, ReiserFS and maybe JFS are just eating the XFS lunch away.
In any case, the Vanderbilt comment is right on.
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