[ Thanks to Jeremy
Andrews for this link. ]
“In a recent thread on the lkml, Nathan Scott requested that
Marcelo merge the core 2.4 kernel changes required to support the
XFS filesystem. Marcelo replied that XFS was best left as a 2.6
feature, noting that ‘2.6 is already stable enough for people to
use it.’ Nathan tried again, explaining:“‘Please reconsider–the ‘core’ kernel changes we need have
existed for three+ years outside of the mainline tree, and each is
a small and easily understood change that doesn’t affect other
filesystems. There is also a VFS fix in there from Ethan Benson, as
we discussed during 2.4.23-pre, when you asked us to resend XFS for
2.4.24-pre! Everything there is a backport from 2.6 in some form,
there should be no surprises…'”