KernelTrap: XFS Merged Into 2.4 Kernel | Linux Today

KernelTrap: XFS Merged Into 2.4 Kernel

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 8, 2003

[ Thanks to Jeremy
Andrews
for this link. ]

“2.4 stable kernel maintainer Marcelo Tosatti recently announced
that XFS has been merged into the 2.4 kernel. He explains,
‘Christoph reviewed [the] XFS patch which changed generic code, and
it was stripped down later to a set of changes which don’t modify
the code behaviour (except for a few bugfixes which should have
been included separately anyway) and are pretty obvious.’ In other
words, during his recent review of the XFS code, Christoph Hellwig
determined that after a few changes it was safe to merge.

“Downloading the latest 2.4 snapshot, a quick grep through the
code confirms that XFS has been merged…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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