XFS filesystem support in Fedora

Mike Burger mburger at bubbanfriends.org
Fri Nov 7 00:02:07 UTC 2003


On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Fabian Arias wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Mike Burger wrote:
> 
> > Are there any plans to include SGI's XFS filesystem support into Fedora's
> > kernels and/or installers?
> 
> <imho>
> 
> XFS support in 2.4 kernels require too much API rewrite, and don't seem to
> be useful such an effort when 2.6 is out of the door, with vanilla XFS
> support included.
> 
> > Such support would be incredibly appreciated.
> 
> Shure it would, but unpractical (in terms of development I mean) for now
> until a couple of next releases that ships 2.6 kernels.
> 
> </imho>

Might want to take a look at the work they've been doing over at 
oss.sgi.com, then...they've been putting XFS into 2.4 for quite some time.
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