On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 9:03 PM Bryan Henderson <bryanh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Is there some better place to get a filesystem driver for the longterm > stable Linux kernel (3.16) than the regular kernel.org source distribution? The general advice[1] on this is not to try and use a 3.x kernel with CephFS. The only exception is if your distro provider is doing special backports (latest RHEL releases have CephFS backports). This causes some confusion, because a number of distros that have shipped "stable" kernels with older, known unstable CephFS code. If you're building your own kernels then you definitely want to be on a recent 4.x John 1. http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/cephfs/best-practices/#which-kernel-version > The reason I ask is that I have been trying to get some clients running > Linux kernel 3.16 (the current long term stable Linux kernel) and so far > I have run into two serious bugs that, it turns out, were found and fixed > years ago in more current mainline kernels. > > In both cases, I emailed Ben Hutchings, the apparent maintainer of 3.16, > asking if the fixes could be added to 3.16, but was met with silence. This > leads me to believe that there are many more bugs in the 3.16 cephfs > filesystem driver waiting for me. Indeed, I've seen panics not yet explained. > > So what are other people using? A less stable kernel? An out-of-tree driver? > FUSE? Is there a working process for getting known bugs fixed in 3.16? > > -- > Bryan Henderson San Jose, California > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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