On 3 February 2010 12:52, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 4:38 AM, James Hogarth <james.hogarth at gmail.com> wrote: > >> RHEL doesn't have a reltime enabled kernel so centos doesn't either by >> default. I believe that there is a kernel in plus that is reltime >> enabled but due to potentially breaking ABI compatibility with RHEL I >> don't make use of it. > > As you can see in my earlier note (and the referenced bug tracker) > that was posted almost at the same time as yours, when I attempted to > add a relatime patch to the centosplus kernel, it did break the kABI. > Therefore it was not applied (there was a workaround however). > > At any rate, the point I wanted to make is that the centosplus kernel > must remain (and has been) kABI-compatible with the distro/RHEL > kernel. > > Akemi > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Ah thanks Akemi - I thought the plus repository existed as something that might break ABI compatibility - I'm pleasantly surprised to find I'm wrong if not the case :) And I saw your post just after I made mine (I must have been typing the same time as you) and you definitely covered the material better. James