Re: XFS problem in 2.6.32

Alan Cox
2011-06-08T09:01:46Z

> > That was what i thoght. So a bug like this should get fixed right? Otherwise this makes no sense. Sadly Redhat has ported the fix back in his RHEL 6 2.6.32 kernel but they haven't send the patch to stable / vanilla team.

It's often not that simple. As vendor trees diverge you may find it's not
a case of 'sending patch X upstream' because the patches you need may
well depend upon other things in the vendor tree not all of which will be
in the 'stable' tree. So it's a base at best.

> Not all distributions will participate in the maintenance stable tree. Red Hat for example is probably worried about people (specifically, Oracle) taking their kernel expertise "for free" and bidding it against them.

Judging from the commit log that isn't the case.

Besides which I hear a rumour that oracle employees have learned how to
download files from other websites and look at the content so it won't
make any odds 8)

Alan