From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264127AbTLAWDH (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2003 17:03:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264128AbTLAWDH (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2003 17:03:07 -0500 Received: from [134.29.1.12] ([134.29.1.12]:50576 "EHLO mail.mnsu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264127AbTLAWDC (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2003 17:03:02 -0500 Message-ID: <3FCBBA3F.2090504@mnsu.edu> Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 16:01:35 -0600 From: "Jeffrey E. Hundstad" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bryan Whitehead CC: Dan Yocum , Nathan Scott , Marcelo Tosatti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: XFS for 2.4 References: <20031201062052.GA2022@frodo> <3FCBABD9.70309@fnal.gov> <3FCBB790.1030503@jpl.nasa.gov> In-Reply-To: <3FCBB790.1030503@jpl.nasa.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. >>> >> > >