Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 17:07:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 17:07:39 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:63503 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 17:07:26 -0400 To: Thunder from the hill Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: XFS? References: <20020909193820.GA2007@lnuxlab.ath.cx.suse.lists.linux.kernel> From: Andi Kleen Date: 09 Sep 2002 23:12:10 +0200 In-Reply-To: Thunder from the hill's message of "9 Sep 2002 23:03:37 +0200" Message-ID: X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1061 Lines: 24 Thunder from the hill 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. I guess it just ended up in Linus' spam filters, like some other things... -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/