Re: Why XFS not in the main kernel?
Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Tue, 23 Oct 2001 08:44:33 +0200
On Tue, Oct 23 2001, Robert Love wrote:
> 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
Not really the block layer -- this used to be the case. SGI kiobuf block
stuff was too ugly to live, and consequently it even died within the XFS
tree :)
--
Jens Axboe
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