Re: HFS, QNXFS

David Weinehall (tao@acc.umu.se)
Fri, 15 Oct 1999 15:03:57 +0200 (MET_DST)


On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > Both HFS and QNXFS has been in the kernel for quite some time, yet both
> > > are flagged Experimental.
> > >
> > > Is this still the case? Are they considered more unstable than other
> > > filesystems in the kernel? If they are considered unstable, HFS should
> > > be made if [ "$CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL" ] ...
> >
> > I've used both and yes they are both still buggy and should remain marked
> > as such. Is anybody still actively maintaining them?
>
> HFS has a maintaier and seems pretty much rock solid in 2.2. The QNXfs is
> still very experimental. Its a read only "solves the migration from QNX
> to Linux" file system - no more.

My suggestion then would be to remove (EXPERIMENTAL) from HFS and let it
stay for QNXfs. Comments, anyone?

/David Weinehall
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