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> XFS is already merged in since 2.5.36. The integration with the 2.4 tree is |
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> a ongoing project. It might be integrated into 2.4 in the future when |
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> marcelo thinks the time is right. |
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It isn't a matter of Marcelo feeling that the time is right, it is a |
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matter of someone taking the time (as was done for 2.5) to simplify the |
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patch and get rid of the extraneous s**t that it messes with outside of |
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what a filesystem should. I think I posted elsewhere about this, but |
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merging JFS into 2.4 involved about a 2000 line patch to kernel core |
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code, XFS's patch is closer to 40000 lines. Normally, adding a filesystem |
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to a kernel tree is not a big deal, but as you might guess getting a |
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massive 40,000 line hunk of code past Marcelo is NOT going to happen. The |
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XFS people (or some other kind soul, as I mentioned) need to 1) start |
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feeding good bits of the XFS patch to Marcelo and 2) start synching it up |
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with his tree so that JUST the filesystem can be merged w/o all the random |
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other stuff they touch. |
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Blah, that is badly written, but whatever, I just woke up. |
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--Brandon |
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