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From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
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On 20020226 Steve Lord wrote:
>On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 15:06, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>> On Feb 26, 2002  12:38 -0800, Dennis, Jim wrote:
>> >  Now I need to know about the status of several unofficial patches:
>> 
>> While my word is by no means official, my general understanding is:
>> 
>> > 	XFS
>> 
>> Not for 2.4 - just too many changes to the core kernel code.
>
>Someone has got to kill this assumption people have about XFS, it
>makes much smaller changes than some things which have gone in,
>the odd VM rewrite here and there to name some. Given that we now
>have official EA system calls, the last chunk of stuff to resolve
>is quota. This is being worked on with Jan Kara.
>

AFAIK, it does not so many changes but duplicates half the fs 
infrastructure already present in kernel just to have a common
codebase with IRIX.

Is this still true ?
Is anybody working in kill all the dups ?
 
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