On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 14:42 +0100, Oliver Bock wrote: > Hi, > > [please CC me in replies, thanks] > > Would it be possible to get the following fix backported to Debian > Wheezy's 3.2 kernel series? > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807503 > > RHEL just included this in their 6.4 release and I think it's an > important patch, in particular for database servers that typically use > XFS and would benefit a lot. Without this fix DBAs might have to resort > to ext4 which they might not consider as a viable alternative otherwise. > > FYI, the patchset was originally integrated in 3.5. Having read this: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.stable/45323/focus=50810 my impression is that backporting XFS changes is fraught with peril. So anyone who wants to do that had better get the result properly reviewed and tested. (There is a test suite available called xfstests; and it's actually supposed to be useful for other POSIX filesystems as well.) I don't have the time to go through all that, so I personally won't work on it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When you say `I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare ... and say `Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'. - Linus Torvalds
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