On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 02:06:16PM -0200, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > BTW: Why 2.6.9 is required and not 2.6.8 or 2.6.0 ? > I mean what in 2.6.9 is so different from 2.6.8 for example so that > UnionFS _requires_ it?
The thing is, each version of the kernel broke unionfs in a different way. So, we had to resort to doing things like saying use this function prototype if the kernel version is more than 2.6.x but less than 2.6.y. It makes the code really complicated. I don't remember the exact reason why we made the cut off at 2.6.9. My guess is that generally, kernel development slows down (read: people stop breaking interfaces as much) around 2.x.10 (where x is an even number). Jeff. _______________________________________________ unionfs mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/mailman/listinfo/unionfs
