Re: RFC: Schedule EFS for removal.

[Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>]

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 01:11:09PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 04:46:13PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>  > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:20:50AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
>  > > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 04:12:09PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>  > >  > > Ok, patch rescinded.  Any opinion on what to do about that bug?
>  > >  > > 
>  > >  > > "use loopback" would be one option I guess.
>  > >  > > Given its been an open bug for four years, there's obviously
>  > >  > > not that much interest in fixing the filesystem.
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > I don't think it's a bug, it's a lacking feature.  The error message
>  > >  > is quite accurate aswell.
>  > > 
>  > > It seems to be a regression in 2.6.x though.  From the report..
>  > > 
>  > > "Under 2.4.21, it doesnt do this."
>  > 
>  > Randy mentioned in bugzilla that 2.4.22 didn't work either, so I'd
>  > be very surprised if 2.4.21 works.
> 
> good point.  I don't see anything obvious in 2.4.22 that would have
> caused a regression, so this sounds suspect.
> I'll close the bugzilla out based on your comments, thanks for looking at it.

In my experience, often when people speak about 2.4.21 (which is quite old),
they in fact refer to an RHEL3 kernel, which has a "few" addon patches :-)
While I don't think that anything related to EFS might be changed in RHEL,
may it be possible that it works as a side effect of a patch in this
kernel ?

That's just pure guess anyway.

Cheers,
Willy