Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 11 Sep 2002 11:12:54 -0400 (EDT) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: XFS? |
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On 9 Sep 2002, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Thunder from the hill <thunder@lightweight.ods.org> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, khromy wrote: > > > What's up with XFS in linux-2.5? I've seen some patches sent to the list > > > but I havn't seen any replies from linus.. What needs to be done to > > > finally merge it? > > > > It has been stated quite regularly that XFS > > a) doesn't always work like it should yet > > That's quite bogus. While not being perfect XFS just works fine for lots > of people in production and performs very well for a lot of tasks.
More to the point, a quick scan of LKML will show that there are fixes for ext3 and reisser on a regular basis, so one must assume that they don't always work as they should either. XFS is in a number of distributions, and is stable for users.
> > b) involves some changes which Linus doesn't like in particular, for > > pretty good reasons. > > I think that's FUD too. That last patch had 6 lines or so of changes > to generic code, everything else was already merged.
Does that mean he should only dislike it a little because it's small? At this stage I would hope he will at least tell you why it wasn't accepted, since XFS is a desirable feature for many people (as evidence vendors providing it).
I'd like XFS, I think it's a good feature politically, hopefully it will not just drop just as it's becoming stable for non-critical production use.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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