On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 12:46 -0600, Brian Kroth wrote: > I'm curious. Are there plans to include this patch in the mainline? Any > reasons why or why not? > > Thanks, > Brian Hi Brian, That's a gfs2 patch, and gfs2 "mainline" is the upstream git tree from kernel.org. We've never tried to add that patch to the upstream kernel because we figured it would be rejected by the upstream community. Those people likely wouldn't accept the suggestion that it should be added "just in case someone wants to run out-of-tree gfs on top of gfs2." After all, the patch is really only useful if gfs (vers. 1) is required, but gfs is not part of that upstream kernel. >From what I've heard, the Fedora community doesn't really accept anything along those lines anymore either. So far they've let us get away with it, but I've heard that it's unacceptable for us going forward (Fedora 9 or 10? I'm not sure where the cutoff is). So lately we've been discussing whether/how to separate out the gfs1 and gfs2 infrastructure so that there isn't that crossover. That issue is still work-in-progress. Regards, Bob Peterson Red Hat GFS -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
