On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I would like to get a sense for what versions of Linux are in use with
> OpenAFS today, to give some guidance as to whether it may be appropriate
> to increase the minimum supported version of Linux from 2.6.0.
>

The oldest distro we use in production is openafs with is RHEL 5. We are
trying to retire the few remaining servers. (Like 2) We have a lot of RHEL
6...

I have been installing openafs on various distros in KVM vms order to test
a script I wrote that depends on openafs to work. I'm doing this because I
want it to be cross distro compatible. So this is kind of a rambling list.
Don't know how useful it could be...

RHEL 5/ CentOS 5, 2.6.18-409.el5. no problems compiling.

RHEL 6 / CentOS 6, 2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.x86_64. no problems compiling.

RHEL 7 / CentOS 7,  3.10.0-327.13.1.el7.x86_64. no problems compiling.

Arch Linux openafs dkms package is broken ATM because of bleeding edge
kernel. (4.5.1-1-ARCH) (openafs is in the AUR)

gentoo updated the kernel recently, but I'm not sure that they added the
required patches to openafs ebuild. So I did not compile it since I am
quite timid on gentoo type stuff. (updated to linux-4.4.6-gentoo) So for me
openafs is still working in the gentoo vm with an older kernel.

Fedora 24 beta also does not compile the kernel module. I mentioned that
before. I'm sure you guys are aware of it, etc. 4.5.1-300.fc24.x86_64. It
doesn't come out until June.

debian 8, 3.16.0-4-amd64. no problems installing from distro packages.

Mint 17, 3.13.0-37-generic no problems installing from distro packages.

ubuntu 14.04 LTS 3.16.0-56-generic no problems installing from distro
packages.

ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-21-generic no problems installing from distro
packages.

I haven't gotten slackware 14.1 to work yet, but it has kernel 3.10.17-smp.

So I think it you remove support for 2.6 it hurts mainly older
RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux. (But that are still supported by Red Hat)

Cheers,

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