On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Danny Tholen wrote: > On Sunday 13 October 2002 10:16, 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? > Because, simply, XFS is a horrible big complex patch that possibly breaks many > things. And stock kernel should be as stable as possible. >
But, it has (IIRC) been merged into 2.5, I think around 2.5.40 Oh, and Redhat doesn't have XFS, and neither does Debian (AFAIK). Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
