Re: Source code for Linux XFS now available!

From: Jim Mostek (mostek@sgi.com)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2000 - 08:19:15 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
>:)
>

And it will be great if you have some answers, too. ;)

Thanks,

Jim

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