Re: XFS in the main kernel

Wichert Akkerman (wichert@cistron.nl)
22 Apr 2002 18:55:20 +0200


In article <3CC427F4.12C40426@fnal.gov>,
Dan Yocum <yocum@fnal.gov> wrote:
>I know it's been discussed to death, but I am making a formal request to you
>to include XFS in the main kernel. We (The Sloan Digital Sky Survey) and
>many, many other groups here at Fermilab would be very happy to have this in
>the main tree.

Has XFS been proven to be completely stable and POSIX complient in its
behaviour? The reason I am asking is that XFS seems to be a fairly common
factor for segfault bugreports in dpkg. The problems are rare enough (and
never reproducable) so I can't prove this but it does leave me wondering.

Wichert.

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