Ocfs2 users - Jun 2010 - Kernel independent OCFS2 packages for RHEL, Scientific Linux and CentOS

Hi,

I would like to announce a set of OCFS2 kABI-tracking kernel module 
packages for RHEL5, Scientific Linux 5 and CentOS-5 and kernels. These 
packages have been introduced into the ELRepo testing repository 
(http://elrepo.org/).

You can find these packages at:

 	http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el5/


The ELRepo project is a community project providing various additional kernel 
modules for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and derivative kernels that aim to be 
kernel independent. Next to this set of OCFS 1.4.7 kernel modules the 
project provides dozens of kmod RPM packages and hundreds of kernel 
modules for a variety of hardware and kernel functionality.


In this case we are looking for OCFS2 users willing to test these packages 
and provide feedback and support in our support channels for future 
users.

We welcome your feedback on our mailinglist and bug-tracker, respectively at:

 	http: //lists.elrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/elrepo
 	http: //elrepo.org/bugs/main_page.php

Kind regards,
-- 
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On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:12:43AM +0200, Dag Wieers
wrote:
> I would like to announce a set of OCFS2 kABI-tracking kernel module 
> packages for RHEL5, Scientific Linux 5 and CentOS-5 and kernels. These 
> packages have been introduced into the ELRepo testing repository 
> (http://elrepo.org/).
Hey Dag,
	Thank you for taking an interest in ocfs2.  You've always been a
great resource for folks working on el-like distributions and their
limited package archives.  I have a couple of questions, if you don't
mind.
	First, do you have any provisions in your package dependencies
to limit packages to certain update releases?  What I mean is, can one
package be installed and used against EL5GA, EL5U1, ..., EL5U5?  Or do
you have some mechanism to isolate a package to only a particular update
release?  I bring this up because there are often ABI changes that are
not detectable via modversions or any other automatic method we
currently have.
	A specific example is ocfs2 1.4, which will crash on EL5GA or
EL5U1.  They do not contain mainline commit
349457ccf2592c14bdf13b6706170ae2e94931b1 "Allow file systems to manually
d_move() inside of ->rename()", which ocfs2 1.4 requires.  This was
introduced in EL5U2.  No function signature is changed, so modversions
will not catch the difference.
	On another note, I was wondering if you have any language
mentioning that these are not the officially supported packages?  I want
to be clear here.  We develop ocfs2 to be used as widely as possible,
and we will never shortchange mainline or a packager like yourself when
it comes to help on ocfs2-users and other community forums.  ocfs2 is
something we're very proud of, and we back that to the best of our
ability.  I'm just want to have a clear story for our customers.

Thanks again,
Joel

-- 

"But all my words come back to me
 In shades of mediocrity.
 Like emptiness in harmony
 I need someone to comfort me."

Joel Becker
Principal Software Developer
Oracle
E-mail: joel.becker at oracle.com
Phone: (650) 506-8127

Hi Dag,

On 18/06/2010 09:12, Dag Wieers wrote:
> I would like to announce a set of OCFS2 kABI-tracking kernel module 
> packages for RHEL5, Scientific Linux 5 and CentOS-5 and kernels.
Can you please stop spamming this list ? A one time announcement here
was plenty. Perhaps setup an announcement list for elrepo ?

- KB