[elrepo] F2FS support in kernel-ml

[Akemi Yagi]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 10:33 AM Alex Margolin <alexam02 at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 19:46, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 4:24 AM Alex Margolin <alexam02 at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I've been using kernel-ml for my research cluster, and I recently stumbled upon the (missing) F2FS File-system (CONFIG_F2FS_FS is not set). Would you please consider adding it to future builds of kernel-ml?
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> On this topic I found this old thread (from 2013), https://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=342 , and I think F2FS has come a long way since then. It has even seen changes in the latest v5.8 kernel, and in fact, it's the best alternative in some cases, according to this: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-58-filesystems&num=2
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> Best regards,
> Alex
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> Are you referring to kernel-ml for el8? As far as I can see kernel-ml
> for el7 has CONFIG_F2FS_FS enabled.
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> Akemi

> Yes, I am using el8. I just assumed el7 would be configured similarly.
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> Do you happen to know the reason for the difference?

Let's wait for Alan to wake up. :)

Akemi