On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 10:24:38PM +0200, drago01 wrote: > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > - it doesn't support O_DIRECT > > Neither does this (which apps needs O_DIRECT on /tmp ? ). qemu and libguestfs as it turned out. It was one of the things we had to fix when we first ported to Debian. It's not completely unusual that an application should want to directly access a cache file, bypassing the page cache, nor that it would want to store such a file in /tmp. My point was that these things will be discovered when we test every application. > > - it doesn't support user extended attrs; and not very old kernels > > didn't support any xattrs at all, meaning things like SELinux > > labels don't work > > Huh? Why would you run a "very old kernel" on fedora? It's not unknown that people use different kernels from the ones supplied. I said "not very old", by which I meant >= 12 months old. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
