From: Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: austin@coremetrics.com (Gonyou, Austin),
narancs@narancs.tii.matav.hu, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: XFS to main kernel source
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 15:16:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200109202016.f8KKGrL19642@jen.americas.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> of "Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:14:47 BST." <E15kADf-000632-00@the-village.bc.nu>
> > Won't there be a lot of changes which need to be made for it to go into 2.5
> > anyway though beyond just current development? Isn't 2.5 supposed to be
> > "radically" different?
>
> Not really. 2.5 will change over time for certain but if anything the 2.5
> changes will make it easier. One problem area with XFS is that it duplicates
> chunks of what should be generic functionality - and 2.5 needs to provide
> the generic paths it wants
Since we have your attention - which chunks? One of the frustrations we have
had is the lack of feedback from anyone who has looked at XFS.
Just interested.
Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-20 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-20 20:07 Gonyou, Austin
2001-09-20 20:14 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-20 20:16 ` Steve Lord [this message]
2001-09-20 20:25 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-20 20:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-09-20 21:31 ` Steve Lord
2001-09-21 3:12 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-09-21 3:25 ` Steve Lord
2001-09-21 4:42 ` Nathan Scott
2001-09-21 5:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-09-21 8:40 ` Narancs v1
2001-09-21 14:19 ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-21 14:45 ` Steve Lord
2001-09-20 20:40 ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-21 18:03 ` Steve Lord
2001-09-20 20:29 ` Horst von Brand
2001-09-20 20:50 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-21 23:32 [PATCH] Remove needless BKL from release functions David C. Hansen
2001-11-22 10:12 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-11-22 12:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-11-22 12:30 ` Horst von Brand
2001-11-22 13:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-11-23 9:44 ` Rick Lindsley
2001-11-23 10:10 ` Oliver.Neukum
2001-11-23 10:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-11-23 11:24 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-11-26 17:46 ` David C. Hansen
2001-11-26 19:41 ` Flavio Stanchina
2001-11-26 19:53 ` David C. Hansen
2001-11-23 12:08 ` Rick Lindsley
2001-11-06 20:04 [PATCH] lp.c, eexpress.c jiffies cleanup Tim Schmielau
2001-11-06 21:15 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-06 21:37 ` Philip Blundell
2001-11-07 0:10 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-06 23:58 ` Tim Hockin
2001-09-20 18:12 XFS to main kernel source Narancs v1
2001-09-20 20:02 ` Alan Cox
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