Looking at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469401 has me a bit unsure about the kmod for 5.3's kernel, is not expected to appear?
Thanks! jlc
On 04/15/2009 08:58 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
Looking at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469401 has me a bit unsure about the kmod for 5.3's kernel, is not expected to appear?
xfs kmod's for centos-5 have so far been done within the centos loop, but this is interesting - looks like 5.4 might have a tech-preview for xfs included in.
xfs kmod's for centos-5 have so far been done within the centos loop, but this is interesting - looks like 5.4 might have a tech-preview for xfs included in.
I never thought of that given that they come from the plus repo. So its only a matter of time then before it appears for the 5.3 kernels... If I have time this weekend, I'll yank an srpm down from the 5.2 branch kmod and see what's involved in making this (Never done it, so I have no idea off the top of my head).
When 5.4 comes out, I might end up using ext4 anyway :)
Thanks for the info. jlc
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
I never thought of that given that they come from the plus repo. So its only a matter of time then before it appears for the 5.3 kernels... If I have time this weekend, I'll yank an srpm down from the 5.2 branch kmod and see what's involved in making this (Never done it, so I have no idea off the top of my head).
iirc, the xfs kmod's are not kernel ver dependant anymore, and havent been for a while.
Tru / Akemi ?
- KB
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
I never thought of that given that they come from the plus repo. So its only a matter of time then before it appears for the 5.3 kernels... If I have time this weekend, I'll yank an srpm down from the 5.2 branch kmod and see what's involved in making this (Never done it, so I have no idea off the top of my head).
iirc, the xfs kmod's are not kernel ver dependant anymore, and havent been for a while.
Tru / Akemi ?
The kABI-tracking kmod-xfs for CentOS-5 started in Oct 2008. The CentOS-4 version has been tested and will be offered shortly (as soon as you/Tru builds it for release). :-D
But the code is somewhat getting old. Maybe it's time to get the project xfs going again? Tru is the leader of this project.
Akemi
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
I never thought of that given that they come from the plus repo. So its only a matter of time then before it appears for the 5.3 kernels... If I have time this weekend, I'll yank an srpm down from the 5.2 branch kmod and see what's involved in making this (Never done it, so I have no idea off the top of my head).
iirc, the xfs kmod's are not kernel ver dependant anymore, and havent been for a while.
Tru / Akemi ?
The kABI-tracking kmod-xfs for CentOS-5 started in Oct 2008. The CentOS-4 version has been tested and will be offered shortly (as soon as you/Tru builds it for release). :-D
But the code is somewhat getting old. Maybe it's time to get the project xfs going again? Tru is the leader of this project.
I think it's worth while to keep xfs updated for a while until ext4 has made enough of an in-road to say xfs should be depreciated in favor of ext4.
-Ross
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 07:34:13AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
I never thought of that given that they come from the plus repo. So its only
....
iirc, the xfs kmod's are not kernel ver dependant anymore, and havent been for a while.
Tru / Akemi ?
The kABI-tracking kmod-xfs for CentOS-5 started in Oct 2008. The CentOS-4 version has been tested and will be offered shortly (as soon as you/Tru builds it for release). :-D
But the code is somewhat getting old. Maybe it's time to get the project xfs going again? Tru is the leader of this project.
OLD? What is broken that needs fixing?
XFS is in rather good shape and should not require much activity. As technology goes it was cutting edge technology when SGI designed it. It may be that ext4 will catch up but based on the clock the new ext4 may not be as stable as XFS is. A year from now... who knows.
I do see xfs related patches going to Linus today ... so it is not idle.
xfs kmod's for centos-5 have so far been done within the centos loop, but this is interesting - looks like 5.4 might have a tech-preview for xfs included in.
FWIW, at FOSDEM 2009 Ted T'so said that he anticipated official XFS support from Redhat in the near future as they recently hired some experienced XFS engineers.
It was not an official announcement of any kind, he was just speculating during a presentation on ext4. It's all just speculation until we see the goods, of course.
-geoff
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Geoff Galitz wrote:
FWIW, at FOSDEM 2009 Ted T'so said that he anticipated official XFS support from Redhat in the near future as they recently hired some experienced XFS engineers.
It was not an official announcement of any kind, he was just speculating during a presentation on ext4. It's all just speculation until we see the goods, of course.
I think it is more than speculation - xfs support has already gone into 5.4 pre-release kernels at http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5/ - the change log includes:
- [fs] xfs: backport to rhel5.4 kernel (Eric Sandeen ) [470845] - [fs] xfs: update to 2.6.28.6 codebase (Eric Sandeen ) [470845]
Eric Sandeen is ex-SGI and I guess the experienced XFS engineer mentioned ...
James Pearson
James Pearson wrote:
- [fs] xfs: backport to rhel5.4 kernel (Eric Sandeen ) [470845]
- [fs] xfs: update to 2.6.28.6 codebase (Eric Sandeen ) [470845]
Eric Sandeen is ex-SGI and I guess the experienced XFS engineer mentioned ...
No, Eric is doing ext4 (and has been for quite some while now).
Ralph
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
James Pearson wrote:
- [fs] xfs: backport to rhel5.4 kernel (Eric Sandeen ) [470845]
- [fs] xfs: update to 2.6.28.6 codebase (Eric Sandeen ) [470845]
Eric Sandeen is ex-SGI and I guess the experienced XFS engineer mentioned ...
No, Eric is doing ext4 (and has been for quite some while now).
That doesn't stop him from being an 'experienced XFS engineer' :-)
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