On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 03:48:38PM +0200, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote: > Am 07.06.2011 15:34, schrieb Christoph Hellwig: > >On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 02:58:32PM +0200, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote: > >Linux 2.6.32 isn't really something supported by us. It's not just a > >very old codebase, but also one where a lot of the XFS code was pretty > >much in flux. If you want supported old releases work use one of > >the commercially supported one like RedHat or SuSE. > OK so my thought was totally wrong. I thought the longterm stable > releases will still get bugfixed by SGI or whoever wrote the stuff. > Sorry for that then. But what is then the idea of a longterm stable? I have no idea what the idea is, but it's clearly not viable for normal kernel developers. Backporting code to age old releases and QAing it is a major effort, and people generally don't do it unless they are paid for it. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
