XFS Patches

[Net Llama!]

On 01/13/03 18:27, Andrew Mathews wrote:
> Bruce Marshall wrote:
> 
>> Are there patches for the 2.4.20 kernel to add XFS?
>>
>> I see the XFS says to start with 2.4.18  (and then mentions 2.4.14) 
>> but I just built a shiny-new 2.4.20 and would like to start there...
>>
>> Not possible?
>>
> 
> Funny you should ask. From the XFS mailing list this afternoon:
> 
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> 
> ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/patches/2.4.20.
> 
> The xfs patches for 2.4.20 have been respun as of 2003-01-14 00:43 UTC.
> 
> For some time the XFS group have been producing split patches for XFS,
> separating the core XFS changes from additional patches such as kdb,
> xattr, acl, dmapi.  The split patches are released to the world with
> the hope that developers and distributors will find them useful.
> 
> Read the README in each directory very carefully, the split patch
> format has changed over a few kernel releases.  Any questions that are
> covered by the README will be ignored.  There is even a 2.4.21/README
> for the terminally impatient :).

I'm confused.  Is there any real functional change to the code, or is it 
just a reorg?  I've been using the original 2.4.20 XFS patch since it 
came out, and haven't had any problems.

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