On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 14:14, 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? > > 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. Dunno if it's a conscious effort or simply a coincidence, but Red Hat just seems terribly opaque to any suggestion of including XFS support. Unlike other distributions ;-) which were happy to include it, at least as an "experimental" feature. That's too bad, since XFS is very good at handling read/write to/from very large files, when other FSs have a rather poor performance. Anyone who tried to author DVDs knows what i'm talking about. > Shure it would, but unpractical (in terms of development I mean) for now > until a couple of next releases that ships 2.6 kernels. I'm sure it won't be difficult at all to include it in the very next Fedora release. XFS-enabled "Red Hat" kernels have been around for ages, they're very well tested. Even hacked Anaconda versions, with XFS support, are available as well. ATrpms http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/ provides such kernels (even for Fedora Core 1) and the userland tools. I'm willing to work on the XFS support issue for the next Fedora. Where do i have to sign up? :-) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/
