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

[Eric Sandeen]

On 7/29/13 9:24 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Dave Chinner" <david at fromorbit.com>
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Those aren't kernel versions; those are kernel *package* versions.

Those are RHEL kernel version numbers, which 100% uniquely identify
the code contained in those kernels.

> Kernel versions are w.x.y or w.x.y.z.

^Upstream.

-Eric

> Cheers,
> -- jra
>