Re: Xiafs inclusion in 2.5?
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
31 Oct 2002 14:20:17 -0800
Followup to: <3DC18308.1040808@gmx.net>
By author: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2002-Q4@gmx.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hello Linus,
>
> somewhere back in 2000, you wrote:
> > Who still remembers xiafs? We have 33 different filesystems in the kernel
> > tree - something that is quite impressive, and something that I don't
> > think anybody else has ever tried to support. But we could have had 34..
>
> Out of curiosity, would you reaccept xiafs in 2.5, if it was cleaned up and
> forward ported to use the new interfaces?
> And if you accept it, what's the latest date I could submit it? Technically,
> it is a regression, ;-) so the feature freeze date might not apply.
>
Not to be flippant, but really... what's the point?
-hpa
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