Bug#272029: FATX filesystem support
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 09:21:12AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 08:38:56AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > tags 272029 +upstream
> > thanks
> >
> > Please get feature-patches merged upstream before bugging us, thanks.
>
> Upstream rejected them untill they're "a lot more commonly used", which can
> also be read as "supported in major distributions like Debian". Considering
> your opinion then the patches should go to /dev/null?
>
> Where are we going? FATX support is non-disruptive (Separate module from
> vfat. It won't even be loaded at all unless the user wants it). What are
> the problems with it? If your concern is with the release process, I can
> understand, and don't mind leaving this as post-sarge.
That was for the Xbox hardware support. There's no reason not to push
the partition and filesystem support - there's lots of foreign
partitioning scheme and filesystem support in Linux.
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