[elrepo] F2FS support in kernel-ml

[Alex Margolin]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 00:17, Alan Bartlett  wrote:
On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 at 18:53, Akemi Yagi  wrote:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 10:33 AM Alex Margolin  wrote:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 19:46, Akemi Yagi  wrote:

On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 4:24 AM Alex Margolin  wrote:

Hi,

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?

On this topic I found this old thread (from 2013), https://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=342 (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 (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-58-filesystems&num=2)

Best regards,
Alex

Are you referring to kernel-ml for el8? As far as I can see kernel-ml
for el7 has CONFIG_F2FS_FS enabled.

Akemi

Yes, I am using el8. I just assumed el7 would be configured similarly.

Do you happen to know the reason for the difference?

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

Akemi

I am awake but puzzled.

We currently provide kernel-lt-4.4.232 for el6 & el7 and
kernel-ml-5.8.0 for el7 & el8. Here follows the CONFIG_F2FS_FS lines
from the respective master configuration files --
It appears v5.8 enabled this setting, and I didn't update the kernel-ml package since v5.7.9... 
Problem solved, thank you. :)
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