From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id q3PJvk0O231102 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:57:46 -0500 Received: from mail.sandeen.net (sandeen.net [63.231.237.45]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id xtPieuCMEUuVPsDX for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:57:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4F985738.7030103@sandeen.net> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:57:44 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: 11.1 References: <1335383079.55171.YahooMailNeo@web126001.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1335383079.55171.YahooMailNeo@web126001.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> 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: Paul Jones Cc: "xfs@oss.sgi.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 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs