Things to do this week instead of arguing about mixers
Eric Sandeen
sandeen at redhat.com
Mon Apr 27 19:53:12 UTC 2009
John Reiser wrote:
> Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> Now that we have ext4 as the new default filesystem, it'd be nice if we
>> can get more applications to take advantage of some of the features.
> [snip]
>> Only a few applications are taking advantage of [preallocation] so far,
>> in part because it's new.
>
> And in part because the compatibility issues are a pain. If a compiled
> binary app uses fallocate(), then the app requires glibc >= 2.9.90.
> fallocate() is not an exported symbol in glibc-2.9. The app won't run
> on Fedora 10, or almost anything except Fedora 11, until it is re-compiled
> to avoid calling fallocate().
The price of progress? :)
Perhaps the autoconf glue should have an explicit --enable-fallocate or
something; for F11 do we really care if the rpms in our binaries don't
run on debian stable or whatnot?
-Eric
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