Re: No ext3/htree in Severn ?

[Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro linuxmail org>]

On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 18:15, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Yusuf Goolamabbas (yusufg outblaze com) said: 
> > A quick look at Severn indicates that ext3/htree patches and ACL patches
> > are not included in the kernel.src.rpm. It would be nice to have
> > filesystem support for large directories available out of the box for RH
> > Linux (ext3/htree or XFS). 
> > 
> > I thought the ext3/htree backport of 2.4 was quite stable
> 
> The last we tried, we found quite a few bugs; that's why it's not
> included at the moment.

And what about extended attributes/ACLs? They seem to be working pretty
nice here (2.6.0-test1)... Many people (like me) migrating from Windows
NT4 and Windows 2000 to Samba will in fact miss them.

Isn't this a beta? I think it's time for testing stuff like this :-)