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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 12:40:06 +0200
To: Toralf Lund <toralf@kscanners.com>, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
From: Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: Integration of XFS into Linux source/major dists?
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At 10:32 26-6-2001 +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
>What exactly is your plans on integration of XFS with the official kernel 
>sources
>and/or the major Linux dists? I'm a bit concerned about the following:

The FAQ explains that.

> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45497
> >
> > --- shadow/45497        Fri Jun 22 05:35:09 2001
> > +++ shadow/45497.tmp.19362      Fri Jun 22 05:50:24 2001
> > @@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
> >  Version: 7.1
> >  Platform: i386
> >  OS/Version: Linux
> > -Status: NEW
> > -Resolution:
> > +Status: RESOLVED
> > +Resolution: NOTABUG
> >  Severity: enhancement
> >  Priority: normal
> >  Component: kernel
> > @@ -34,3 +34,12 @@
> >  Also note that there are certain issues related to installing kernel RPMs
> >  from SGI on a Red Hat 7.1 system, such as the fact that devfsd from 
> Red Hat
> >  is not quite compatible with the SGI kernel.
> > +
> > +------- Additional comments from arjanv@redhat.com 2001-06-22 05:50:43 
> -------
> > +XFS is not a candidate for 7.1 kernels unless it gets merged into Linus'
> > +2.4 tree (their patch touches a lot of core code, and they add syscalls
> > +which is something we only do when Linus approves them)
> > +
> > +
> > +Also, please take bugs against the SGI kernel to SGI not us, as they 
> changed
> > +several things we put in explicitly in order not to break things.
> >
> > Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional
> > comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report.

RedHat deserves the right to withhold from merging in a relatively 
intrusive patch. You don't just add complicated filesystems every day.

>We're currently using XFS on a 180Gb RAID volume, by the way, and 
>everything looks
>good so far.

It does work, and extremely well in my own case. But that does not mean it 
will automatically get inserted in the mainstream kernel.
We are working on it, but it will take some time to resolve all the items 
that linus asks for in a patch.

Cheers
Seth
--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.