Re: XFS contention fix backport (3.5 -> 3.2) feasible?

[Oliver Bock <oliver.bock@aei.mpg.de>]

On 3/19/13 4:44 , Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 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.

Ok, thanks for the update.


Best,
Oliver