[Ocfs2-users] new release 1.4.8.1

[Dag Wieers]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, Sunil Mushran wrote:

> On 12/07/2010 04:07 AM, Dag Wieers wrote:
>
>>  Does this mean that the ocfs2 1.6 sources are not publically available ?
>>
>>  And that ocfs2-tools 1.6.3 is the successor of ocfs2_tools 1.4.4 and to be
>>  used with ocfs2 1.4.7 or ocfs2 1.4.8 ?
>>
>>  What is the solution for people interested in running ocfs2 on
>>  RHEL6/CentOS-6 ?
>
> ocfs2-tools is fully backward compatible. Our tools works with all ocfs2 
> versions. Production, mainline, etc. ocfs2-tools 1.6.3 is the latest 
> release of tools that will show up in various distros. Most of these 
> distros will just build ocfs2 that is in the mainline kernel. Then they 
> will be uptodate as far as the feature-set is concerned.

Ok, good to know. I'll be packaging the latest in all cases than.


> Sorry, I cannot comment on future product releases.

So the course of action we are likely going to take for RHEL5 users is 
to keep providing the ocfs2 1.4 series, and for RHEL6 we will be 
backporting ocfs2 from mainline kernels (which seems to be at 1.5.0 in 
2.6.36.1).

It feels however that ocfs2 is becoming less open than it used to be :-/

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