Re: XFS to main kernel source

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:14:47 +0100 (BST)


> Won't there be a lot of changes which need to be made for it to go into 2.5
> anyway though beyond just current development? Isn't 2.5 supposed to be
> "radically" different?

Not really. 2.5 will change over time for certain but if anything the 2.5
changes will make it easier. One problem area with XFS is that it duplicates
chunks of what should be generic functionality - and 2.5 needs to provide
the generic paths it wants
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