Re: Source code for Linux XFS now available!

From: James Simmons (jsimmons@acsu.buffalo.edu)
Date: Sat Apr 01 2000 - 22:11:23 EST


On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Jim Mostek wrote:

> >> and expensive 56k or 64k lines. I can download reiserfs, ext3, jfs and linlogfs either as patch or
> >> as tarball of the new files, why can't you do this, too?
> >
> >Please do :(
>
> Russell placed a smaller source patch in:
> ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ftpdir/03312000linux-2.3.99pre2-linux-2.3-xfs.patch.gz

Thank you. Already looking at it.

> >Fro what I could tell of the XFS code its doesn't use any parts of linux
> >VFS layer. It looks like to will have to be slowly intergrated to it.
>
> What to you mean by this?
> We have implemented all of the file and inode ops in
> xfs/linux/xfs_file.c, xfsZ_iops.c, xfs_super.c, ...
>
> Are you saying that we should eliminate the linvfs layer
> and just change the xfs_* routines? If we do eliminate
> the linvfs layer we will need to somehow retain the
> bhv_desc_t structures so that CXFS can fold in.

Okay. Well I move this to the XFS mailing list. I will have many questions
:)

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