From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:28:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:28:07 -0400 Received: from ns.caldera.de ([212.34.180.1]:5840 "EHLO ns.caldera.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:27:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 22:26:43 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Steve Lord Cc: Alan Cox , "Gonyou, Austin" , narancs@narancs.tii.matav.hu, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: XFS to main kernel source Message-ID: <20010920222643.A7267@caldera.de> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Steve Lord , Alan Cox , "Gonyou, Austin" , narancs@narancs.tii.matav.hu, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200109202016.f8KKGrL19642@jen.americas.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200109202016.f8KKGrL19642@jen.americas.sgi.com>; from lord@sgi.com on Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 03:16:52PM -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 03:16:52PM -0500, Steve Lord wrote: > > > Won't there be a lot of changes which need to be made for it to go into 2.5 > > > anyway though beyond just current development? Isn't 2.5 supposed to be > > > "radically" different? > > > > Not really. 2.5 will change over time for certain but if anything the 2.5 > > changes will make it easier. One problem area with XFS is that it duplicates > > chunks of what should be generic functionality - and 2.5 needs to provide > > the generic paths it wants > > Since we have your attention - which chunks? One of the frustrations we have > had is the lack of feedback from anyone who has looked at XFS. o The whole vnode layer o checks already peformed by the VFS all over the place (just take a look at xfs_rename.c!) o the own quoata code o the hooks for a propritary clusterfs.. My 2 (euro-)cents, Christoph -- Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.