From: Martin Knoblauch <Martin.Knoblauch@TeraPort.de>
To: "Peter Wächtler" <pwaechtler@loewe-komp.de>
Cc: kernel@Expansa.sns.it,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: XFS in the main kernel
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:55:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CC583F8.8A88360A@TeraPort.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CC56355.E5086E46@TeraPort.de> <3CC581F6.6050103@loewe-komp.de>
Peter Wächtler wrote:
>
> Martin Knoblauch wrote:
> >>Re: XFS in the main kernel
> >>
> >
> > so, what were the main obstacles again? The VFS layer?
> >
>
> The VFS and such features like "delayed block allocation". XFS tries
> to gather 64K or so before submitting to disk/block layer.
>
> FWIW, SuSE 8 ships with full (but experimental marked) XFS support.
Definitely a step forward. But some people (including myself, I guess)
do not like distribution kernels. Yeah, hard to please - I know :-). I
use SuSE on the desktop, but not because of the kernel. I use RedHat on
servers and compute nodes, but not because of the kernel.
Martin
PS: Thanks for the hint. I didn't realize it when I upgraded to 8.0.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-23 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-23 13:36 XFS in the main kernel Martin Knoblauch
2002-04-23 14:30 ` Stephen Lord
2002-04-23 15:47 ` Martin Knoblauch
2002-04-23 21:37 ` J.A. Magallon
2002-04-23 9:23 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-04-24 9:32 ` Luigi Genoni
2002-04-23 15:47 ` Peter Wächtler
2002-04-23 15:55 ` Martin Knoblauch [this message]
2002-04-23 21:43 ` Luigi Genoni
2002-04-23 9:32 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-04-24 7:13 ` Martin Knoblauch
2002-04-24 9:02 ` Luigi Genoni
[not found] <20020422234419.GQ2470@dstl.gov.uk>
2002-04-23 8:31 ` Tony Gale
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-22 15:10 Dan Yocum
2002-04-21 15:29 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-04-22 16:55 ` Wichert Akkerman
2002-04-22 22:19 ` Matthias Andree
2002-04-22 22:47 ` Chris Mason
2002-04-22 23:29 ` Keith Owens
2002-04-22 23:44 ` Wichert Akkerman
2002-04-23 0:43 ` Luigi Genoni
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