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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS for 2.4
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 14:20:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031201222025.GA6152@work.bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031201221058.GA621@frodo>

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 09:10:58AM +1100, Nathan Scott wrote:
> > Nathan, 
> > 
> > I think XFS should be a 2.6 only feature.
> > 
> > 2.6 is already stable enough for people to use it. 
> > 
> 
> Hi Marcelo,
> 
> Please reconsider 

I have no idea if XFS should or should not go in, I'm not commenting on that.

However, having a bunch of XFS users say "put it in" when the maintainer
said no, DaveM said no, and no other file system people seem to be
stepping up to the bat with a review and a nod seems wrong.  

Have you spoken with the people who maintain the generic parts of the
VFS layer that you want to change?  If those people were in the list of
people saying "XFS should go in" then I think you'd get a lot farther.

It's great that there are XFS users but the users should not make the add
it or not add it decision, the people who maintain those interfaces which
are generic should make that decision.  Don't you agree?
-- 
---
Larry McVoy              lm at bitmover.com          http://www.bitmover.com/lm

  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-01 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-01  6:20 XFS for 2.4 Nathan Scott
2003-12-01  9:24 ` Jens Axboe
2003-12-01  9:44   ` Stefan Smietanowski
2003-12-01  9:45     ` Jens Axboe
2003-12-01 14:06 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-01 22:10   ` Nathan Scott
2003-12-01 22:20     ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2003-12-02  0:23       ` Nathan Scott
2003-12-02 11:22         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-02 18:05           ` Austin Gonyou
2003-12-02 19:55           ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-12-02 20:05             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-02 20:16             ` Lawrence Walton
2003-12-03 19:01           ` bill davidsen
2003-12-03 20:45             ` Willy Tarreau
2003-12-03 21:17               ` bill davidsen
2003-12-03 21:48                 ` Joel Becker
2003-12-03 22:17                   ` bill davidsen
2003-12-03 22:08                 ` Ed Sweetman
2003-12-04  5:21                   ` Willy Tarreau
2003-12-04  0:34               ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2003-12-04  5:33                 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-12-04 10:13                   ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2003-12-02 11:18     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-02 11:48       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-02 15:34       ` Russell Cattelan
2003-12-02 15:50         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-02 16:10           ` Darrell Michaud
2003-12-02 16:21             ` Austin Gonyou
2003-12-02 16:28             ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-02 16:57               ` venom
2003-12-02 17:41               ` Stefan Smietanowski
2003-12-02 18:01           ` Russell Cattelan
2003-12-02 16:13         ` Jeremy Jackson
2003-12-02  0:51   ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2003-12-02  1:26     ` Marcos D. Marado Torres
2003-12-14  1:08   ` 2.4 vs 2.6 Jan Rychter
2003-12-14  1:01     ` Roberto Sanchez
2003-12-14 11:23       ` Måns Rullgård
2003-12-14 18:09         ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2003-12-14  1:53     ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2003-12-14  2:01     ` coderman
2003-12-14 20:23       ` tabris
2003-12-14  7:05     ` Voicu Liviu
2003-12-14 16:01       ` Roberto Sanchez
2003-12-14 17:32         ` Voicu Liviu
2003-12-15  7:23           ` Harry McGregor
2003-12-15  7:51             ` Voicu Liviu
2003-12-14 11:24     ` Frederik Deweerdt
2003-12-01 21:00 ` XFS for 2.4 Dan Yocum
2003-12-01 21:50   ` Bryan Whitehead
2003-12-01 22:01     ` Jeffrey E. Hundstad
2003-12-01 22:13     ` Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
2003-12-02  2:54     ` Joshua Schmidlkofer
2003-12-02 11:02   ` Maciej Soltysiak
2003-12-02 17:45 Murthy Kambhampaty
2003-12-02 17:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-03 20:10   ` bill davidsen
2003-12-02 18:01 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-02 19:10   ` Tomas Szepe
2003-12-03  0:13     ` Eric Sandall
2003-12-03 20:12       ` bill davidsen
2003-12-02 18:02 ` Larry McVoy
2003-12-02 18:11   ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]     ` <20031202181146.A27567@adic.com>
2003-12-02 18:19       ` Steve Lord
2003-12-02 18:20     ` Larry McVoy
2003-12-02 18:23       ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-02 18:27         ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-02 19:12           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-02 20:10             ` Nathan Scott
2003-12-02 20:11         ` viro
2003-12-03 20:51       ` bill davidsen
2003-12-03 20:44   ` bill davidsen
2003-12-03 21:06     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-03 22:07     ` grundig
2003-12-03 22:48       ` bill davidsen
2003-12-02 18:34 Murthy Kambhampaty
2003-12-04  1:27 Xose Vazquez Perez
2003-12-04  2:40 ` Bernd Eckenfels

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