Re: Why XFS not in the main kernel?

[Robert Love]

On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 01:35, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
> Is there a reason not to include XFS in the mainstream kernel?  It is very
> stable and many (including us) are using it in production environments without
> problems.
> 
> Obviously, there can't be liscening issues, because XFS is released under GPL.

No one doubts XFS is stable.  It is a great fs.  But XFS includes some
modifications to block layer and such that people aren't ready to merge
yet -- XFS touches a lot of stuff.  During 2.5, the better bits of the
modifications will be used and then XFS can be merged properly.  Perhaps
once this proves stable a backport to 2.4 can be done.

	Robert Love