A short digression on FOSS (Re: understanding speculative preallocation)

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Chinner" <david at fromorbit.com>

> Sure, they have diverged signficant;y as we've backported various
> bits of XFs fetaures and bug fixes back into RHEL6. As have every
> other distro that doesn't track mainline directly. That's why you
> need to look at the kernel source package to know what code the
> distro is running.

And... all the way back to Jason's original question:

The way that you get the information out of a kernel/kernel RPM to 
determine which XFS version it's running... is?  Cause it's clearly
not obvious to either him or me.

Cheers,
-- jra
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