Hi Ben,

We have a few clients on CentOS 6.7. Most are on CentOS 7.2. Distro
supplied kernels only.
We are also phasing out CentOS 6.x

The bulk of our clients are Windows 7 workstations. We are most worried
about the support for Windows 10 and onwards, but this is probably
another story.

Thank you (everyone!) for your efforts in supporting OpenAFS over the years.

-Kostas

On 05/06/2016 08:14 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> 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
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