[fab] Filesystems support in Fedora

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 19:05 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Moreover, the framework for contribution is there, although it's not the
> cleanest. By following the upstream kernel, we make sure that anyone who
> works with upstream for those filesystems gets their stuff merged; beyond
> that, it would be a) updating the userspace tools b) getting any needed
> patches into anaconda. a) can't be done by any random volunteers, but
> b) certainly could be.

And actually, random volunteers can do most of the work of the userspace
tool updates too -- rsc did most of the work[1] to get xfsprogs updated
(although the build then failed on ppc64 which I still need to harass
dwmw2 into looking at ;)

Jeremy

[1] Thanks Robert!