Re: Merging backported fscrypt to 4.4?

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Hi Willy,

> On 12 Oct 2017, at 18:26, Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 01:26:26PM +0000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
>>>>> You should convince your customers to use a more modern kernel :)
>>>> 
>>>> In fact one of our customers were moving to a more recent kernel and
>>>> cancelled the move when the announcement about the longer 4.4 kernel
>>>> life time was made!!!
>>> 
>>> Um, that's not really very wise.  You should council them about that...
> 
> In fact given that 4.9 will be maintained for a long time as well, there
> is no really valid excuse for rolling back to 4.4.

Interesting.  https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html still states 4.4 has projected EOL 2022 whilst 4.9 is 2019 so I can see why companies are looking and it and jumping onto 4.4...

Best regards,

	Anton

> Willy

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Anton Altaparmakov <anton at tuxera.com> (replace at with @)
Lead in File System Development, Tuxera Inc., http://www.tuxera.com/
Linux NTFS maintainer




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