Re: XFS?

[Mike Galbraith]

At 04:20 PM 9/9/2002 -0500, Shawn wrote:
>XFS needs a sponser. Who amung Linus's circle of trust cares to comment
>or re-evaluate?
>
>If no one, I guess it's a moot point.

(see below)

>On 09/09, Andi Kleen said something like:
> > Thunder from the hill <[e-mail]> writes:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, khromy wrote:
> > > > What's up with XFS in linux-2.5? I've seen some patches sent to the 
> list
> > > > but I havn't seen any replies from linus.. What needs to be done to
> > > > finally merge it?
> > >
> > > It has been stated quite regularly that XFS
> > > a) doesn't always work like it should yet
> >
> > That's quite bogus. While not being perfect XFS just works fine for lots
> > of people in production and performs very well for a lot of tasks.
> >
> > > b) involves some changes which Linus doesn't like in particular, for
> > >    pretty good reasons.
> >
> > I think that's FUD too. That last patch had 6 lines or so of changes
> > to generic code, everything else was already merged.

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         -Mike