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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Xiafs inclusion in 2.5?
Date: 31 Oct 2002 14:20:17 -0800
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By author:    Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2002-Q4@gmx.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
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> Hello Linus,
> 
> somewhere back in 2000, you wrote:
>  > Who still remembers xiafs? We have 33 different filesystems in the kernel
>  > tree - something that is quite impressive, and something that I don't
>  > think anybody else has ever tried to support. But we could have had 34..
> 
> Out of curiosity, would you reaccept xiafs in 2.5, if it was cleaned up and 
> forward ported to use the new interfaces?
> And if you accept it, what's the latest date I could submit it? Technically, 
> it is a regression, ;-) so the feature freeze date might not apply.
> 

Not to be flippant, but really... what's the point?

	-hpa
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