On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:03:48 -0400 Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It won't build on db-4.4, either. probably won't build on db-4.5, as > > db-5.0 says DBC->xxx was introduced in db-4.6. :-) Should we disable > > support for 4.3 - 4.5 and add 4.9 - 5.0? > > I'd answer "yes", by a circuitous route: if I understand things > correctly, the replicated PAXOS db4 backend that we are heading towards > (see the 'replica' branch of > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/daemon/cld/cld.git) was buggy in early db4 > releases. > Therefore, it sounds like we could eliminate two issues with a single > change, by removing support for db 4.3 - 4.5, the DBC issue and the > PAXOS issue. RHEL 5 ships with db4-4.3.29-10.el5 (I checked for Bo's problem this morning), so dropping 4.3 will make RHEL 5 unsupportable. Just a point to consider. -- Pete -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe hail-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
