John Reiser wrote: > Eric Sandeen wrote: >> Now that we have ext4 as the new default filesystem, it'd be nice if we >> can get more applications to take advantage of some of the features. > [snip] >> Only a few applications are taking advantage of [preallocation] so far, >> in part because it's new. > > And in part because the compatibility issues are a pain. If a compiled > binary app uses fallocate(), then the app requires glibc >= 2.9.90. > fallocate() is not an exported symbol in glibc-2.9. The app won't run > on Fedora 10, or almost anything except Fedora 11, until it is re-compiled > to avoid calling fallocate(). The price of progress? :) Perhaps the autoconf glue should have an explicit --enable-fallocate or something; for F11 do we really care if the rpms in our binaries don't run on debian stable or whatnot? -Eric -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
