> > Hi all, > > OpenAFS has generally tried to provide a software that is compatible > with a wide range of new and historical operating systems; it is only > recently (March 2015) that we removed support for Linux 2.4. > > The current linux support is all bundled in as "Linux 2.6", since > there has not been a major version boundary with drastic changes since > then, rather, a continual evolution with some changes affecting us in > most releases. Major versions 3 and 4 were added just because "the > numbers were getting too big", but are still a normal evolution of the > code with ancestry from 2.6. > > Because there are not major version conditionals in place (and because > many distributions backport some patches for their kernels but not > others), we instead rely on feature tests at configure time. Over > time, we accumulate a lot of these tests and the corresponding code > conditionals, which makes the code harder to read and maintain. > > 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. > > Thanks, > > Ben
Sorry about before. Thunderbird & Office365 are fun... We're mostly running RHEL6 with the Red Hat 2.6.32 kernel, a shrinking handful of RHEL5 boxes with the 2.6.18 kernel, and an even smaller number of RHEL7 machines running 3.10.0. We're also planning on replacing our Solaris 10 OpenAFS database servers with RHEL6 machines within the year. Since support for RHEL6 doesn't end until 2020, we'll still like to see Linux 2.6 support continue in OpenAFS 1.6 at least until then. -- Tony D'Amato, RHCSA/RHCE Senior UNIX Systems Administrator Server Support Group, Information Technology Services Old Dominion University _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
