linux-kernel - Re: RFC: Schedule EFS for removal.

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Message-ID: <20070522224900.GE22628@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 22 May 2007 18:49:00 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	rdunlap@...otime.net
Subject: Re: RFC: Schedule EFS for removal.

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 11:01:54PM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:

 > >  > > "Under 2.4.21, it doesnt do this."
 > >  > 
 > >  > Randy mentioned in bugzilla that 2.4.22 didn't work either, so I'd
 > >  > be very surprised if 2.4.21 works.
 > > 
 > > good point.  I don't see anything obvious in 2.4.22 that would have
 > > caused a regression, so this sounds suspect.
 > > I'll close the bugzilla out based on your comments, thanks for looking at it.
 > 
 > In my experience, often when people speak about 2.4.21 (which is quite old),
 > they in fact refer to an RHEL3 kernel, which has a "few" addon patches :-)
 > While I don't think that anything related to EFS might be changed in RHEL,
 > may it be possible that it works as a side effect of a patch in this
 > kernel ?
 > 
 > That's just pure guess anyway.

not unless it's a recompiled version.  As shipped, RHEL3 has..

# CONFIG_EFS_FS is not set

	Dave

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