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Date:   Fri, 8 Jan 2021 10:13:23 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: Aarch64 EXT4FS inode checksum failures - seems to be weak memory
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On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 11:27:22AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> I will note that RHEL 7 uses gcc 4.8.  I personally don't have an
> objections to requiring developers using RHEL 7 to have to install a
> more modern gcc (since I use Debian Testing and gcc 10.2.1, myself,
> and gcc 5.1 is so five years ago :-), but I could imagine that being
> considered inconvenient for some.

The kernel minimum (4.9) is already past that, so RHEL7 people are
already out in the cold.