From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id p9DAZAaw166124 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:35:11 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 6FC0315306FD for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:42:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (173-166-109-252-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.166.109.252]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id E7uWByAQ5F2nhhj1 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:42:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:35:04 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Help with xfs and Fedora 8 Message-ID: <20111013103504.GA16466@infradead.org> References: <20111012231424.GK3159@dastard> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111012231424.GK3159@dastard> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Dave Chinner Cc: Ram Natarajan , xfs@oss.sgi.com On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:14:24AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > > For various technical reasons, I cannot move to a > > later kernel, but it would be great if I can build the latest xfs modules > > and xfs support code for 2.6.23. Does anybody know if this is possible, and > > if it is possible, will it work reliably? > > The kernel code is not so simple. Indeed, if you're not a kernel > programmer and familiar with the XFS code, then I'd put it in the > impossible basket. It'll take at least 3 months to do the backport > and adequately test it for production use, and that's if you pay an > expert to do it. > > It's far, far simpler to just upgrade your machines to a more recent > distribution that it is to backport code to kernels that old.... Indeed. If you insist on an old kernel version with a semi recent XFS please get a RHEL/Centos 5 kernel. That one is actually labelled 2.6.18 but contains many fixes and updated components, including a relatively new XFS codebase. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs