Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:58:54 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: XFS to main kernel source |
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On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:31:37PM -0500, Steve Lord wrote: > > o The whole vnode layer > > Two answers here - economics and code stability. This is a filesystem > which has been worked on by people being payed to do so by a corporation, > therefore there is a budget (long since blown). It was simpler and hence > cheaper to wrap XFS in a conversion layer than to rework the code down > into the bowels of the filesystem. Then the stability part of it, we > started with a working filesystem, from an engineering standpoint it > made more sense to keep as much of the existing code base intact as > possible - the less surgery performed the better in terms of keeping > things running, and making it easy to take enhancements and fixes made > in the Irix base into the Linux code (we don't do it the other way around).
I completly understand SGI's reson to do this - but yet I don't want to see such code in the mainline for obvios reasons..
> > o the hooks for a propritary clusterfs.. > > Well we have to make money on something you know.... and in reality > there are not a lot of them in the filesystem.
Again I understand SGI's reasoning - but such hooks are usually not considered to be a good thing line.
Christoph
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