On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:21:37AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > Laurent de Segur wrote: > > > It's too bad that the XFS module (at least on ppc) is not part of the > > pre-compiled kernel image (ReiserFS is), > > Not really, you still need patches (at least Alan Cox's) to use ReiserFS on > big endian systems. >
Do the -ac kernels compile and work on ppc now? > > and that the XFS kernel patches lag a few kernel revs behind, making it > > mostly obsolete by the time you have to install it on the latest 2.4 kernel > > Not my experience, when I looked more than a week ago, their FTP site already > had patches for early .10-pre versions. > > XFS can't be merged into 2.4 because there are too many changes, but it will > hopefully be merged in during 2.5 . > DevFS was merged late in 2.3 ReiserFS was merged in 2.4.1 A mostly new VM was merged in 2.4.10pre11 I think XFS and ext3 may have good chances of a merge. Who can say when the major VM changes were merged into 2.3? Wasn't there a lot done in 2.4-test? I remember reading kernel-traffic around that time, but not earlier... Mike
