Hi Ted. On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 02:40:22PM +0200, Fabio Comolli wrote: >> OK. Now I have on my box the 2.6.27.19 kernel. Do you mean that I have >> to apply 19->20, 20->21 and then this patch? > > There are ext4-related fixes in the 19->20 patches. There are no ext4 > related patches in 20->21, so whether or not you do this is optional > (from the perspective of applying this patch). > OK >> Then mount the fs as ext4dev? > > Yes, same as before. I will note that there were some enhancements > and some lower-priority bug fixes that don't get backported to 2.6.27 > series, since sometimes it is extremely difficult to backport things > as far as 2.6.27. So if your goal is to use this in production, > 2.6.29 will almost certainly be a better bet. The number of people > who test the 2.6.27 backports of ext4 are also much smaller. We > provide it as a service those who for whatever reason refuse to update > to newer kernels, but it's hard for me to offer guarantees. > Many thanks. I normally use 2.6.29 with ext4 but I just discovered a bug that prevents me to use video acceleration. It seems that this was introduced in the 2.6.28 series and 2.6.27.X don't have it. > Best regards, > > - Ted > Regards, Fabio -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
