[3025] in Release_7.7_team
Linux ext3 (was Re: Minutes of 2001-10-03 release team meeting)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Oct 20 11:14:37 2001
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 11:14:33 -0400
Message-Id: <200110201514.LAA29166@error-messages.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
CC: release-team@mit.edu
In-reply-to: <200110031903.PAA04604@equal-rites.mit.edu>
> Normally, we would upgrade to Solaris 9 and Red Hat 7.2 next summer,
> starting work in February. However, because of the filesystem
> issues with ext2, we are strongly considering upgrading to Red Hat
> 7.2 this IAP, since it contains ext3 support.
Fortunately, another path has opened up. Garry noticed that the
latest kernel for Red Hat 7.1 (kernel-2.4.9-6) contains ext3 support,
in the form of a module. We are planning to go to this kernel in the
next Athena patch release anyway due to a local kernel exploit (Garry
has already built AFS modules). Here is my plan:
Wed Oct 24 - 9.0.19 to dev cell, with kernel-2.4.9-6 and SUNWski
Mon Nov 5 - 9.0.19 to athena cell
Wed Nov 7 - 9.0.20 to dev cell for Linux, with ext3fs turned on
Mon Jan 14 - 9.0.20 to athena cell
This gives us a nice long testing period for ext3fs, including a
couple of weeks of testing in the field during IAP.
