Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f9FBmaX03280 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 04:48:36 -0700 Received: from Cantor.suse.de (ns.suse.de [213.95.15.193]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f9FBmWD03258 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 04:48:33 -0700 Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Hermes.suse.de [213.95.15.136]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32A761E535; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 13:48:18 +0200 (MEST) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 13:48:16 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Robert Sander Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: backport to 2.2 Message-ID: <20011015134816.A20094@gruyere.muc.suse.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from ml-linux-xfs@epigenomics.com on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 10:46:35AM +0000 Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 10:46:35AM +0000, Robert Sander wrote: > Hi! > > Are there any thoughts about backporting XFS to the Linux kernel 2.2.19? > > The current non-stability of the 2.4 series makes it nearly impossible > to run that great filesystem on production machines. > > Would it be very hard to do? Else we would have to switch back to ext2 > losing the journaling option. It would be very hard, nearly like a new port of XFS. XFS and its pagebuf layer is heavily tied to the 2.4+ VM system and uses infrastructure that wasn't there in 2.2. -Andi