Re: XFS in the main kernel

Luigi Genoni
2002-04-24T09:03:16Z

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Martin Knoblauch wrote:

> Luigi Genoni wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Martin Knoblauch wrote:
> >
> > > > Re: XFS in the main kernel
> > > >
> > > definitely. Unless XFS is in the mainline kernel (marked as
> > > experimantal if necessary) it will not get good exposure.
> >
> > XFS needs 2.5, not 2.4, because of a lot of reasons.
> > If I do remember well a strong obiection to XFS is that it introduces a
> > kernel thread to emulate Irix behavious to talk with pagebuf (a la Irix),
> > end to have an interface with VM and Block Device layer.
> >
> > This forces some vincles.
> >
>
> No problem with XFS going into 2.5 mainline, but not 2.4. But - is that
> happening?
>
I do not think so. At the end it is Linus the one who should decide, and
XFS should find a way to agree with him. All depends on this.