Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756297Ab0FAOuP (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:50:15 -0400 Received: from DMZ-MAILSEC-SCANNER-7.MIT.EDU ([18.7.68.36]:56715 "EHLO dmz-mailsec-scanner-7.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753920Ab0FAOuN convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:50:13 -0400 X-AuditID: 12074424-b7b9dae000002832-36-4c051e24e5fb Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.27.y 1/3] ext4: Use our own write_cache_pages() Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1078) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Theodore Tso In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:49:57 -0400 Cc: Kay Diederichs , "Jayson R. King" , Stable team , LKML , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , Dave Chinner , Ext4 Developers List Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <070DAF41-4DD5-4F20-B9F1-3B472147C499@mit.edu> References: <4C001888.8020006@jaysonking.com> <4C0018E1.5060007@jaysonking.com> <20100529004913.GL26177@thunk.org> <4C0070D8.8060500@jaysonking.com> <20100530212502.GQ26177@thunk.org> <4C0358B1.1050605@uni-konstanz.de> To: Greg Freemyer X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1078) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1211 Lines: 21 On Jun 1, 2010, at 9:54 AM, Greg Freemyer wrote: > > It has always been marked experimental in 2.6.27, not stable so I'm > totally lost about this effort. > > See http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.27.47/fs/Kconfig This is one of the things that confuses me, actually. Why is it that there are a number of people who want to use ext4 on 2.6.27? Even the enterprise distro's have moved on; SLES 11 SP1 upgraded their users from 2.6.27 to 2.6.32, for example. I wonder if it's time to start a new "stable anchor point" around 2.6.32, given that Ubuntu's latest Long-Term Stable (Lucid LTS) is based on 2.6.32, as is SLES 11 SP1. The RHEL 6 beta is also based on 2.6.32. (And I just spent quite a bit of time over the past week backporting a lot of ext4 bug fixes to 2.6.32.y :-) If there are people who want to work on trying to backport more ext4 fixes to 2.6.27, they're of course free to do so. I am really curious as to *why*, though. Regards, -- Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/