From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay2.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.29]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CE657F37 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 2013 19:02:55 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by relay2.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D5BA304032 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 2013 17:02:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net (ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net [150.101.137.129]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id oHV7CpZwcr96XR3q for ; Sun, 28 Jul 2013 17:02:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 10:02:47 +1000 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: A short digression on FOSS (Re: understanding speculative preallocation) Message-ID: <20130729000247.GA13468@dastard> References: <52C3E9E6-61DD-4537-9A64-C8CBFC86F6E3@gmail.com> <31450470.2412.1374978094689.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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 Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Stefan Ring Cc: Jay Ashworth , Linux fs XFS On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 09:18:52AM +0200, Stefan Ring wrote: > > "You have to talk to whomever builds the kernel packages for the distro > > you're working on; they should be able to tell you which XFS {version| > > release|checkout} is built into that particular kernel RPM." > > For what it's worth, you can try to pry this info out of Oracle's > RedPatch , which actually > doesn't look all that active anymore recently, but given that it's > Oracle, one cannot seriously be surprised about anything. Oh, that thing. It hasn't ben maintained because it didn't work properly, needed lots of hand holding, and nobody actually cared. > The thing is, that RHEL XFS and mainline XFS seem to have drifted > apart a good deal, and as result, for an outsider, it is very > difficult to correlate patches between the two branches. Sure, they have diverged signficant;y as we've backported various bits of XFs fetaures and bug fixes back into RHEL6. As have every other distro that doesn't track mainline directly. That's why you need to look at the kernel source package to know what code the distro is running. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs