On Thursday 17 January 2008, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Jan 17, 2008 1:25 PM, Chris mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, I've put v0.11 out there. It fixes those two problems and will also > > compile on older (2.6.18) enterprise kernels. > > > > v0.11 does not have any disk format changes. > > Hi Chris, > > First, massive congratulations for bringing this to fruition in such a > short time. > > Now back to the regular carping: why even support older kernels?
The general answer is the backports are small and easy. I don't test them heavily, and I don't go out of my way to make things work. But, they do make it easier for people to try out, and to figure how to use all these new features to solve problems. Small changes that enable more testers are always welcome. In general, the core parts of the kernel that btrfs uses haven't had many interface changes since 2.6.18, so this isn't a huge deal. -chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
