On 4/14/2011 7:32 AM, Christopher Chan wrote:
>
> HAHAHAHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>
> The XFS codebase is the biggest pile of mess in the Linux kernel and you
> expect it to be not run into mysterious problems? Remember, XFS was
> PORTED over to Linux. It is not a 'native' thing to Linux.
Well yeah, but the way I remember it, SGI was using it for real work
like video editing and storing zillions of files back when Linux was a
toy with a 2 gig file size limit and linear directory scans as the only
option. If you mean that the Linux side had a not-invented-here
attitude about it and did the port badly you might be right...
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