On Jul 28, 2013, at 10:38 PM, Keith Keller <kkeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2013-07-29, Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> The "version" of XFS that you are running is that of the >> kernel you are running. i.e. 2.6.32-279.x.y or 2.6.32-358.x.y. > > Can't you fairly easily replace a kernel module with a different version > using something like DKMS? I feel like I did that with xfs a few months > ago. If accurate, then it's theoretically possible to run a different > version of the xfs kernel module than the running kernel version. (And > if I'm misremembering then there really is no spoon!) > In general, no. There are a lot of moving parts that interface with the filesystem - one does not simply drop fs/xfs from, say, kernel 3.2 into a 2.6.32 kernel. Ninjas like Dave can do it for an enterprise distro kernel if it benefits customers, but the back porting and testing is very much a nontrivial task. -Eric > --keith > > -- > kkeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > _______________________________________________ > xfs mailing list > xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs > _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
