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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Paul Jones <ntdeveloper2002@yahoo.com>
Cc: "xfs@oss.sgi.com" <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: 11.1
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:57:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F985738.7030103@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1335383079.55171.YahooMailNeo@web126001.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>

On 4/25/12 2:44 PM, Paul Jones wrote:
> I am running stock Suse 11.1, which is pretty old. Is there a way for
> me to take the latest version of the xfs code and compile it for
> 11.1, or os there a dependency on later kernel versions/Suse versions
> somehow? I am running 2.6-32..I wanted to get all the latest
> scalability and performance fixes..

backporting newer filesystems to older kernels is a nontrivial task.
Distros do it with a fair bit of effort and testing; non-fs-ninjas
usually do not.  :)

So yes, it's technically possible, but it's not a drop-in replacement.

(if you're talking about the userspace xfsprogs code, that's another
matter; newer xfsprogs & xfsdump should work fine with older kernels,
just build it and go)

-Eric

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-25 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-25 19:44 11.1 Paul Jones
2012-04-25 19:57 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2012-04-27 21:28 ` 11.1 Michael Monnerie

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