Re: XFS entering kernel 2.4 tree - Should the installer include support?

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at>]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 09:51:07AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
[...] 
>  We use XFS extensively at work, and while it has many nice
>  features, I think some time is needed before we can say the
>  integration into 2.4 has been successful.  I'm actually quite
>  surprised to hear the patch no longer touched the VFS by the time
>  it was integrated; there were still quite a few things outside of
>  fs/xfs being changed by the kernel patch last I looked.  Either
>  they've done an excellent job of merging the rest of these other
>  changes already, or there are as-yet-unapplied patches that some of
>  us might miss. ;)

e.g. the ACL support in xfs has not been (and will not be) merged in
mainline 2.4.
                 cu andreas