On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Matthias Saou wrote:
Alan Cox wrote :
I noticed that the SGI XFS source code has been included in Severn's kernel source tree. Will XFS will be part of next official release of RedHat ?
XFS will certainly be in the 2.6 based releases, maybe in 2.4 based stuff, and may even make the base 2.4 kernel in time - most of the infrastructure is now present.
Whether we ship install support for it - I don't know.
Isn't this typically the type of module that would go into the "kernel-unsupported" sub-package? I'd be very happy to be able to run xfs at my own risk, being able to do it easily, and keeping a default Red Hat Linux kernel.
So how is this any different than all the other stuff RedHat adds to the RedHat kernels now. XFS is good enough for Linus to include in 2.6 . Many are using it for production work , it is not some just released product. If it can get into this new RHL project then that would be great. It will give a head start to XFS before 2.6 .
-Connie Sieh Fermi National Laboratory
Matthias