Re: Aarch64 EXT4FS inode checksum failures - seems to be weak memory ordering issues

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Jan 08 2021 - 04:14:37 EST


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.