Re: Congrats Marcelo,

J.A. Magallon (jamagallon@able.es)
Wed, 27 Feb 2002 00:00:24 +0100


On 20020226 Steve Lord wrote:
>On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 15:06, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>> On Feb 26, 2002 12:38 -0800, Dennis, Jim wrote:
>> > Now I need to know about the status of several unofficial patches:
>>
>> While my word is by no means official, my general understanding is:
>>
>> > XFS
>>
>> Not for 2.4 - just too many changes to the core kernel code.
>
>Someone has got to kill this assumption people have about XFS, it
>makes much smaller changes than some things which have gone in,
>the odd VM rewrite here and there to name some. Given that we now
>have official EA system calls, the last chunk of stuff to resolve
>is quota. This is being worked on with Jan Kara.
>

AFAIK, it does not so many changes but duplicates half the fs
infrastructure already present in kernel just to have a common
codebase with IRIX.

Is this still true ?
Is anybody working in kill all the dups ?

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