Subject: Re: Patch for 2.4.19, acceptance into main kernel tree?
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>
To: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
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Date: 12 Aug 2002 16:21:58 -0500
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Hi Roland - 

Please see ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/patches/2.4.19, and
note that this is just a snapshot patch, not a well-tested release.

Oh, and read the README, it explains the files you'll find there.

Regarding acceptance into Linus' tree, that work is ongoing...

-Eric

On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 16:24, Roland Dobbins wrote:
> I'm really grateful for all the hard work and resources you folks have
> put into XFS - I've come to depend on it as a fast, reliable journaling
> filesystem, so please accept my heartfelt thanks for your efforts in
> this area!
> 
> As with all projects of this sort, people (like me, heh) identify the
> best-of-breed and begin -using- and, worse -needing- the technology in
> question.  So, not to nag, but I was just wondering if there were any
> plans to produce an XFS patch for 2.4.19,  and what efforts, if any,
> were underway to get Linux to accept it into the main kernel tree?

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Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
sandeen@sgi.com   SGI, Inc.         651-683-3102