Now that Linux kernel 2.6.17 is released, and the last pvfs2-compatible
kernel was 2.6.15 (released over six months ago), I'm faced with (a)
foregoing all driver and security kernel fixes or (b) losing pvfs2 FS
access.
To avoid this, I'm planning to fix up kernel compilation against a clean
pvfs2-1.4.0 distribution. Since this has already been done in CVS, my
two questions are:
(1) has anyone already done this as a single patch (i.e. aside from the
1.5.0 major changes) and
(2) will 1.5.0 be released in the next month, making such an effort
rather pointless :-) ?
Rob Ross wrote:
Hi Simon,
It will be a 1.5.0 release, because we are making some major changes
in the metadata storage organization in order to obtain some rather
substantial speedups. This necessitates some significant testing
before the release.
We're working out the last few known bugs now. We were hoping that the
kernels would stay consistent for a while and let us subsist on 1.4.0,
but as usual that didn't work out :).
Soon!
Rob
Number Cruncher wrote:
How long until a 1.4.1 release? I'm reluctant to use CVS stuff since
downtime/corruption would inconvenience a bunch of other people, yet
only 2.6.16 kernels contain a bugfix which prevents my dual opteron
systems occasionally locking up.
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