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Xi Shen posted on Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:50:44 +0800 as excerpted: |
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> hi, |
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> i am using gentoo x64. i want to try xen, but my file system is ext4, |
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> and i cannot fine ext4 support while compiling xen-source. have i missed |
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> something, or ext4 is not supported by xen for now? when will it be |
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> available? |
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xen uses out-of-mainline patches, and it appears at least the versions in |
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the Gentoo tree are pretty old, 2.6.18 as ~arch and 2.6.21 hard-masked. |
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AFAIK, that's well before ext4 was declared non-dev. I don't think you |
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want to /touch/ ext4 from that old, if it was even in the tree as |
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ext4-dev yet. |
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Generally, the folks that are interested in xen run servers and are very |
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conservative about the filesystems they'll run, even more than the apps |
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they run, which they want stable and well tested. They're not the type |
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to want any surprises or take any not absolutely necessary risks -- and |
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quite the type that would consider any filesystem not yet at least three |
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years old to be just that, an "unnecessary risk". It's thus unlikely |
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that you'll find much interest in ext4 on xen for some time. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |