On 2/10/2012 10:39 PM, Ori Bani wrote: > Per Stan's response on this thread, what kernel does CentOS 6 use nowadays?
RHEL 6.2 is the first rev including all the new XFS goodies. Thus I can only assume you would need CentOS 6.2, which is based on RHEL 6.2. As to what kernel is used, RHEL kernel numbers don't track well all with vanilla sources. They cherry pick kernel patches from all over the kernel source trees, assembling their in house kernel in a la carte fashion. There's an interview floating around the web of Red Hat's kernel project manager (at that time at least) where he states this. > (I know RedHat tends to maintain slightly older versions of things, > although I think they backport changes from newer versions (making it > even harder to know what their version numbers really mean)) Not just older. The difficulty you mention WRT patches in completely intentional. Oracle was stealing too many Red Hat customers. Their response was to do this: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/139165/red-hat-defends-kernel-code-obfuscation We're way off topic at this point (were already with filesystem discussion). If you have any other RHEL/CentOS or XFS questions you need to take them up on the appropriate mailing lists or forums. -- Stan
