From: Pierre Ossman Subject: Re: What's slated for inclusion in 2.6.24-rc1 from the NFS client git tree... Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 08:52:06 +0200 Message-ID: <20071004085206.0a8e37b5@poseidon.drzeus.cx> References: <1191454876.6726.32.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: nfsv4@linux-nfs.org, Andrew Morton , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Trond Myklebust Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IdKZB-0006eb-8g for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:52:13 -0700 Received: from gateway.drzeus.cx ([85.8.24.16] helo=smtp.drzeus.cx) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1IdKZE-0006Sj-37 for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:52:18 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1191454876.6726.32.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> List-Id: "Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:41:16 -0400 Trond Myklebust wrote: > > We also have the 64-bit inode support from RedHat/Peter Staubach. > As has been pointed[1] out[2], this will cause regressions for non-LFS applications (of which there are still lots and lots). This change should be in feature-removal (the "feature" being removed is legacy support for non-LFS applications using NFS servers that make full use of the protocol) and preferably accompanied with appropriate user space changes (e.g. compatibility option in glibc). [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=241348 [2] http://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&m=118701088726477&w=2 Rgds -- -- Pierre Ossman Linux kernel, MMC maintainer http://www.kernel.org PulseAudio, core developer http://pulseaudio.org rdesktop, core developer http://www.rdesktop.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs