Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:13:57 +0200 | From | Martin Knoblauch <> | Subject | Re: XFS in the main kernel |
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Luigi Genoni wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > > > Re: XFS in the main kernel > > > > > definitely. Unless XFS is in the mainline kernel (marked as > > experimantal if necessary) it will not get good exposure. > > XFS needs 2.5, not 2.4, because of a lot of reasons. > If I do remember well a strong obiection to XFS is that it introduces a > kernel thread to emulate Irix behavious to talk with pagebuf (a la Irix), > end to have an interface with VM and Block Device layer. > > This forces some vincles. >
No problem with XFS going into 2.5 mainline, but not 2.4. But - is that happening?
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