Mike Fedyk wrote: > > 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?
Dunno, maybe his patches apply to e.g. benh's tree though? > > 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. ext3 maybe, but have you actually looked at an XFS patch? It replaces half of the lowlevel filesystem code, not exactly what's supposed to happen in a stable kernel series... > Who can say when the major VM changes were merged into 2.3? Wasn't > there a lot done in 2.4-test? Odd minor numbers (2.4.0-testx were actually rather 2.3.x) mean development kernels, big changes are supposed to happen there. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
