From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Anuradha Ratnaweera <anuradha@gnu.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why XFS not in the main kernel?
Date: 23 Oct 2001 02:21:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1003818066.1491.2.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011023113546.A1310@bee.lk>
In-Reply-To: <20011023113546.A1310@bee.lk>
On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 01:35, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
> Is there a reason not to include XFS in the mainstream kernel? It is very
> stable and many (including us) are using it in production environments without
> problems.
>
> Obviously, there can't be liscening issues, because XFS is released under GPL.
No one doubts XFS is stable. It is a great fs. But XFS includes some
modifications to block layer and such that people aren't ready to merge
yet -- XFS touches a lot of stuff. During 2.5, the better bits of the
modifications will be used and then XFS can be merged properly. Perhaps
once this proves stable a backport to 2.4 can be done.
Robert Love
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-23 6:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-23 5:35 Why XFS not in the main kernel? Anuradha Ratnaweera
2001-10-23 6:21 ` Robert Love [this message]
2001-10-23 6:44 ` Jens Axboe
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