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

[Keith Keller]

On 2013-07-29, Dave Chinner <david at fromorbit.com> wrote:
>
> The "version" of XFS that you are running is that of the
> kernel you are running. i.e. 2.6.32-279.x.y or 2.6.32-358.x.y.

Can't you fairly easily replace a kernel module with a different version
using something like DKMS?  I feel like I did that with xfs a few months
ago.  If accurate, then it's theoretically possible to run a different
version of the xfs kernel module than the running kernel version.  (And
if I'm misremembering then there really is no spoon!)

--keith

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