From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262288AbTLBQ2h (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:28:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262297AbTLBQ2h (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:28:37 -0500 Received: from havoc.gtf.org ([63.247.75.124]:13457 "EHLO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262288AbTLBQ2f (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:28:35 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:28:08 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik To: Darrell Michaud Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Russell Cattelan , Nathan Scott , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: XFS for 2.4 Message-ID: <20031202162808.GC22608@gtf.org> References: <1070381443.5316.260.camel@atherne> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1070381443.5316.260.camel@atherne> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 11:10:43AM -0500, Darrell Michaud wrote: > As a user it would be very beneficial for me to have XFS support in the > official 2.4 kernel tree. XFS been stable and "2.4 integration-ready" > for a long time, and 2.4 is going to be used in certain environments for > a long time, if only because it's easier to upgrade a 2.4 kernel to a > newer 2.4 kernel than to upgrade to a 2.6 kernel. It seems like an easy > case to make. > > I use other filesystems and some funky drivers as well.. and I'm always > very happy to see useful backports show up in the 2.4 tree. Thank you! This can also be done in patch form, as it is done now :) There are several pieces of backported software that are integration-ready, but that doesn't imply they should go into an increasingly-frozen 2.4.x tree... Jeff