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Message-ID: <4C0525DB.7000103@uni-konstanz.de>
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:23:07 +0200
From: Kay Diederichs <Kay.Diederichs@...-konstanz.de>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@....EDU>
CC: Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@...il.com>,
"Jayson R. King" <dev@...sonking.com>,
Stable team <stable@...nel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.27.y 1/3] ext4: Use our own write_cache_pages()
Theodore Tso schrieb:
> On Jun 1, 2010, at 9:54 AM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>> It has always been marked experimental in 2.6.27, not stable so I'm
>> totally lost about this effort.
>>
>> See http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.27.47/fs/Kconfig
>
> This is one of the things that confuses me, actually. Why is it that there are a number of people who want to use ext4 on 2.6.27? Even the enterprise distro's have moved on; SLES 11 SP1 upgraded their users from 2.6.27 to 2.6.32, for example. I wonder if it's time to start a new "stable anchor point" around 2.6.32, given that Ubuntu's latest Long-Term Stable (Lucid LTS) is based on 2.6.32, as is SLES 11 SP1. The RHEL 6 beta is also based on 2.6.32. (And I just spent quite a bit of time over the past week backporting a lot of ext4 bug fixes to 2.6.32.y :-)
>
> If there are people who want to work on trying to backport more ext4 fixes to 2.6.27, they're of course free to do so. I am really curious as to *why*, though.
>
> Regards,
>
> -- Ted
>
The answer is: because 2.6.27.y is supposed to be a _stable_ kernel. If
it were e.g. 2.6.28 or 2.6.29, nobody would care. But as long as there
is a flow of backported fixes (and there have been quite a few ext4
fixes in 2.6.27) I have the expectation that known bugs get fixed sooner
or later.
If a subsystem maintainer says "I'm not going to support this old stable
thing any longer" then things change. But I hear this from you for the
first time - I may have missed earlier announcements to this effect, though.
best,
Kay
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