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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:13:57 +0200
From: Martin Knoblauch <Martin.Knoblauch@TeraPort.de>
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Luigi Genoni wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Martin Knoblauch wrote:
> 
> > > Re: XFS in the main kernel
> > >
> >  definitely. Unless XFS is in the mainline kernel (marked as
> > experimantal if necessary) it will not get good exposure.
> 
> XFS needs 2.5, not 2.4, because of a lot of reasons.
> If I do remember well a strong obiection to XFS is that it introduces a
> kernel thread to emulate Irix behavious to talk with pagebuf (a la Irix),
> end to have an interface with VM and Block Device layer.
> 
> This forces some vincles.
> 

 No problem with XFS going into 2.5 mainline, but not 2.4. But - is that
happening?

Martin
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