Re: XFS: accounting of reclaimable inodes is incorrect

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 03:48:38PM +0200, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
> Am 07.06.2011 15:34, schrieb Christoph Hellwig:
> >On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 02:58:32PM +0200, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
> >Linux 2.6.32 isn't really something supported by us.  It's not just a
> >very old codebase, but also one where a lot of the XFS code was pretty
> >much in flux.  If you want supported old releases work use one of
> >the commercially supported one like RedHat or SuSE.
> OK so my thought was totally wrong. I thought the longterm stable
> releases will still get bugfixed by SGI or whoever wrote the stuff.
> Sorry for that then. But what is then the idea of a longterm stable?

I have no idea what the idea is, but it's clearly not viable for normal
kernel developers.  Backporting code to age old releases and QAing it is
a major effort, and people generally don't do it unless they are paid
for it.