Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 09:39:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 09:39:22 -0400 Received: from ns1.mscsoftware.com ([192.207.69.10]:46834 "EHLO draco.macsch.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 09:39:21 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Martin Knoblauch Reply-To: martin.knoblauch@mscsoftware.com Organization: MSC.Software GmbH To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: XFS? Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 15:42:21 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <200209121542.21987.martin.knoblauch@mscsoftware.com> X-AntiVirus: OK! AntiVir MailGate Version 2.0.1.2; AVE: 6.15.0.1; VDF: 6.15.0.7 at mailmuc has not found any known virus in this email. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1025 Lines: 34 >> So does Redhat/Suse/??? ship XFS yet? >> >> john >> > >Mandrake has had XFS support in the default boot kernel since 8.0. >AFAIK, Suse >and Slackware also have XFS capable kernels now too. for what its worth, MSC.Linux supports it on IA32 and IA64 :-) In my opinion the non-inclosure in the mainline kernel is the most important reason not to use XFS (or any other FS). Which in turn massively reduces the tester base. It is a shame, because for some type of applications it performs great, or better than anything else. Martin -- Martin Knoblauch Senior System Architect MSC.software GmbH Am Moosfeld 13 D-81829 Muenchen, Germany e-mail: martin.knoblauch@mscsoftware.com http://www.mscsoftware.com Phone/Fax: +49-89-431987-189 / -7189 Mobile: +49-174-3069245 - 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/