For one, the XFS patches are rather non-invasive. Folks have argued on lkml for a long time that Linus doesn't integrate patches that are too invasive when quite the opposite is true -- he'd rather integrate invasive stuff to make patching the kernel up w/ less-invasive patches less difficult. Some very-invasive stuff will never get merged (OpenMOSIX, for instance). Also remember that JFS was't merged until 2.4.19, the very latest stable release of 2.4, and it's considered less stable than XFS.
On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 04:16, Bjarne Thomsen wrote: > Why is XFS the only journaling FS that is not > included in the main 2.4 tree, considering > that Mandrake, SuSE, Gentoo, Slackware, and > JB Linux all have support for XFS? > > -- Bjarne > > > On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 19:52, Wes Kurdziolek wrote: > > XFS will most likely not be integrated into the 2.4 tree. > > > > On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 12:35, Bjarne Thomsen wrote: > > > Does anybody know if XFS has been included > > > in 2.4.20-pre or 2.4.20-pre-ac ? > > > > > > Bjarne > > > > > > On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 18:04, Claudio wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Brent Hasty wrote: > > > > > > > > > > 3)Quotas might work better in XFS, but I haven't tested that enough ... > > > > > (ie from a windows box via samba). > > > > > > > > > > > > > quota DOES NOT work on ext3 filesystem at the moment. I reported this > > > > problem since 9.0 beta 1... > > > > If you want to use quote, you MUST use XFS! > > > > > > > > Claudio > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
