Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: xiafs | Date | 17 Apr 1998 04:48:55 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.91.980416185941.27893D-100000@mirkwood.dummy.home> By author: Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Smilax Rotundifolia wrote: > > > A question about XIAFS... > > > > Why was it taken out? Was there some unstable code, or a security issue? > > Or was it just deemed useless? Or was there another reason? > > AFAIK, it was taken out because: > - it doesn't have any advantages over ext2fs > - it's hardly being used > - it takes up space in the kernel source tree > - it needs to be maintained and kept up to date, while hardly > anybody uses it > - ext2 is the standard linux fs, and all xiafs does is adding to > the chaos (for newbies, that is) >
Out of those, #4 I think is the killer. The remaining points I don't think is any reason to unload working code. However, once it requires people power to maintain...
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