From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Hesse Subject: Re: Backporting to 2.6.27 and below Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 18:33:44 +0100 Message-ID: <200902041833.45435.mail@earthworm.de> References: <20090203195352.GA7568@tux64-01> <1233759267.20318.0.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Cc: Lee Trager , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: Chris Mason Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1233759267.20318.0.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> List-ID: On Wednesday 04 February 2009 15:54:27 Chris Mason wrote: > On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 14:53 -0500, Lee Trager wrote: > > A couple of weeks ago it was mentioned that btrfs in the stand alone > > tree would be patched to support 2.6.27 with older versions coming > > after. Has anyone actually done these patches? I'd like to get btrfs > > running on 2.6.26(Debian Lenny kernel) and if no one has done any code > > towards it I'd be happy to do it. > > It would definitely be appreciated. For the most part this should just > be digging out the commits that dropped the compat code and adding them > back. You just have to revert commit 9ca03b997f71787e345951e6267fbd8eba14d49f to compile btrfs for 2.6.27. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs- unstable.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=9ca03b997f71787e345951e6267fbd8eba14d49f Regards, Chris