On Thursday 07 February 2008, Jeff Mahoney wrote: > - gpg control packet > > Chris Mason wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 February 2008, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 05:14:51PM -0500, Jeff Mahoney wrote: > >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >>> Hash: SHA1 > >>> > >>> Kernels prior to 2.6.19 don't export file_ra_state_init(). This patch > >>> adds the file_ra_state_init() from 2.6.18. > >> > >> Please put this somewhere else, a separate file and hopefully only in > >> your backports tree. This is kernels from stoneage after all, not just > >> one or two revisions back. > > > > I did ask Jeff for these patches. I know it clutters up the source but > > it is relatively small and very easy to rip out at merge time. Btrfs > > gains much more from broadening the testing base than it does from > > keeping a few bits pretty. > > > > Hopefully this means there are people on SUSE 2.6.16 kernels interested > > in testing things? > > I looked at backporting it to 2.6.16, but there are just too many things > to work around easily. That kernel is used on 10.1 and SLES 10, neither > of which I'm inclined to work that hard to get btrfs working with. ;)
Ah ok, I was wondering how they got sooo much smaller... > > It does work on 10.2 and 10.3, which are based on 2.6.18 and 2.6.22, > respectively. The AppArmor patch, extended properly, will also get btrfs > up and running on recent versions of Ubuntu. Can we limit it to just 10.3? I figure most of the testers will be inside novell at first, and hopefully they are all running the latest ;) -chris _______________________________________________ Btrfs-devel mailing list [email protected] http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/btrfs-devel
