Re: XFS for 2.4

From: "Jeffrey E. Hundstad" <jeffrey.hundstad@mnsu.edu>
To: Bryan Whitehead <driver@jpl.nasa.gov>
Cc: Dan Yocum <yocum@fnal.gov>, Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS for 2.4
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 16:01:35 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FCBBA3F.2090504@mnsu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FCBB790.1030503@jpl.nasa.gov>

I'd like to add my vote also.  I've been using XFS for years.  The XFS 
patches work well.  But having them in the standard kernel would be very 
nice.

-- 
jeffrey hundstad

Bryan Whitehead wrote:

> I'd like to "third" this request. Have a large amount of data here on 
> XFS with v2.4 kernel.
>
> Would be nice to be able to use pre-release 2.4 for testing without 
> having to manually hack in XFS paches from SGI for the odd reject...
>
> Dan Yocum wrote:
>
>> Marcelo,
>>
>> We (Fermilab) second this request.  We won't be touching 2.6 until 
>> it's really stable (read as, Red Hat comes out with an official 
>> distro that has it built in), and we already have *a lot* of XFS 
>> filesystems here (~>300TB) running on 2.4 kernels.  It would be very, 
>> very nice to have it in the 2.4 tree without having to pull it from SGI.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dan
>>
>>
>> Nathan Scott wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Marcelo,
>>>
>>> Please do a
>>>
>>>     bk pull http://xfs.org:8090/linux-2.4+coreXFS
>>>
>>> This will merge the core 2.4 kernel changes required for supporting
>>> the XFS filesystem, as listed below.  If this all looks acceptable,
>>> then please also pull the filesystem-specific code (fs/xfs/*)
>>>
>>>     bk pull http://xfs.org:8090/linux-2.4+justXFS
>>>
>>> cheers.
>>>
>>
>
>