XFS filesystem revisited

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Interesting - I'm not up on who does what in Gentoo but that was some 
nonsense they wrote.  What is OpenMosix?

David A. Bandel wrote:
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> "Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb at charter.net> wrote:
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> I suspect that there are some Gentoo followers (those that wrote the
> Gentoo XFS nonsense) that follow the OpenMosix lead developer, who also
> seems to have a dislike for XFS.  I've compared patches from XFS and
> OpenMosix (which clash badly) and there's not a lot of difference, but
> there is one or two minor differences (and they really may be major for
> all I know) in the handling of the base disk I/O.  One of these
> differences involved a variable that for one patch was added inside an
> #ifdef by one and outside it by the other (if I remember correctly --
> #been a while since I tried to make XFS and OpenMosix play nice
> #together).
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> I've decided to wait for 2.6, when OpenMosix can no longer ignore XFS --
> well, they can, they can just not develop OpenMosix for 2.6.
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> Ciao,
> 
> David A. Bandel
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