Jakob Blomer: > we at Cern would be glad if 3.10 support could be continued. Our CernVM > [1] kernel uses a 3.10 long-term kernel with aufs patches. While we can > work on moving CernVM to 3.14, more critically is that the RHEL7 kernel > is largely based on 3.10. RHEL (more specifically the Scientific Linux > clone) is the predominant operating system in high-energy physics. We > maintain aufs patches for RHEL 6 [2] and we will soon need to provide an > aufs patched RHEL7 kernel.
Do you mean that you are using aufs2.1-32 as your base version? And going to switch to aufs3.10.x-base? If so, I am really surprised that aufs such long life. It is a good news and I am glad. But at the same time, I feel depressed. As you might know, I am maintaining aufs3.9..aufs3.16-rcN now. Basically I commit all bugfixes and new features into aufs3.9 branch. After testing aufs3.9, I run "git checkout aufs3.10 && git pull . aufs3.9" and test aufs3.10. Oh, I often skip testing for aufs3.10 and aufs3.10.x since I think nobody is using them. Anyway I have several branches in a single version, such as - aufs3.9/10static - aufs3.9/11proc_map - aufs3.9/18public - aufs3.9/19gbuild - aufs3.9/20module - aufs3.9/25lktr - aufs3.9/29loopback Those are to generate several patches in aufs3-standalone.git. You can see some of them if you run "git log" under aufs3-linux.git. Similary I have several branches for a single version under aufs3-standalone.git. The command I wrote above is simplified. In real world, I have to repeat more "git pull." This git-work takes long time and I feel pain, because linux kernel source tree is very large. This is my main reason to reduce the number of supported versions. Even on SSD, switching several versions is painfully slow. Anyway I will re-consider about my base version. J. R. Okajima ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds
