Dear Alois Schlögl, On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 02:36:05PM +0200, Alois Schloegl wrote: > > We are looking into distributed, parallel filesystems like beegfs and > orangefs. I'd prefer orangefs (mainly because of its license terms). > > We'd like to use Debian/stable for this set up, unfortunately, the > current debian kernel has orange-fs support disabled.
I see it got merged in 4.9 hence stable would be possible. > Is there a chance that orange-fs will be supported in future > debian-kernel releases ? What is the reason for not enabling orange-fs > (except that the configuration resides only in the "miscellaneous > filesystem") ? Unless it has other dependencies, which I haven't checked, it is very likely an oversight. > What would be needed in order to enable orange-fs support in the debian > kernel releases ? Would you mind filling a wishlist bug against the unstable linux-image? Then once changed this would propagate into Testing. Afterwards this could be considered for a next stable update. Thanks for your input! Kind regards, maximilian
