Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Dec 2003 20:55:02 +0100 | From | Stephan von Krawczynski <> | Subject | Re: XFS for 2.4 |
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On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 09:22:48 -0200 (BRST) Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com> wrote:
> [...] > A development tree is much different from a stable tree. You cant just > simply backport generic VFS changes just because everybody agreed with > them on the development tree. > > My whole point is "2.6 is almost out of the door and its so much better". > Its much faster, much cleaner.
Even if I am a bit off-topic here, please reconsider your last sentence. Don't make people think that 2.6 is in a widely useable state right now. Just take a look at the history of 2.4. Don't forget 2.4 can be used in boxes beyond 4 GB only right _now_ (2.4.23), all previous versions fall completely apart on i386 platform. 2.4 is right now nice, useable and pretty stable - and 2.6 has not even begun to see the real-and-ugly world yet. There will for sure be a lot of interesting test cases during the next months for 2.6, but there are quite an amount of people that need a real stable environment - and that's why they will have to use 2.4 for at least one year from now on.
This is no vote for or against XFS-inclusion, I don't know the thing at all. I only want to state: developer environment is pretty different from the real world, so don't dump 2.4 too early please.
Regards, Stephan
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