Re: RFC: Schedule EFS for removal.

From: Dave Jones
Date: Tue May 22 2007 - 18:49:24 EST


On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 11:01:54PM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:

> > > > "Under 2.4.21, it doesnt do this."
> > >
> > > Randy mentioned in bugzilla that 2.4.22 didn't work either, so I'd
> > > be very surprised if 2.4.21 works.
> >
> > good point. I don't see anything obvious in 2.4.22 that would have
> > caused a regression, so this sounds suspect.
> > I'll close the bugzilla out based on your comments, thanks for looking at it.
>
> In my experience, often when people speak about 2.4.21 (which is quite old),
> they in fact refer to an RHEL3 kernel, which has a "few" addon patches :-)
> While I don't think that anything related to EFS might be changed in RHEL,
> may it be possible that it works as a side effect of a patch in this
> kernel ?
>
> That's just pure guess anyway.

not unless it's a recompiled version. As shipped, RHEL3 has..

# CONFIG_EFS_FS is not set

Dave

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