linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6][TAKE5] fallocate system call

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Message-ID: <20070629072017.GA13192@infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:20:17 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Amit K. Arora" <aarora@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, David Chinner <dgc@....com>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...sterfs.com>, suparna@...ibm.com,
	cmm@...ibm.com, xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6][TAKE5] fallocate system call

On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 11:33:42AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I think Mingming was asking that Ted move the current quilt tree into git,
> presumably because she's working off git.
> 
> I'm not sure what to do, really.  The core kernel patches need to be in
> Ted's tree for testing but that'll create a mess for me.

Could we please stop this stupid ext4-centrism?  XFS is ready so we can
put in the syscalls backed by XFS.  We have already done this with the xattr
syscalls in 2.4, btw.

Then again I don't think we should put it in quite yet, because this thread
has degraded into creeping featurism, please give me some more time to
preparate a semi-coheret rants about this..

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