Backporting XFS fixes to stable [LWN.net]

Backporting XFS fixes to stable

Posted Jun 20, 2023 22:25 UTC (Tue) by pauldoo (subscriber, #124140)
Parent article: Backporting XFS fixes to stable

If an XFS user wants the most stable XFS experience possible, and is willing to run any kernel version, which kernel would the maintainers recommend?

Would it be the latest stable kernel, latest LTS kernel, an older LTS kernel, or something else?

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Backporting XFS fixes to stable

Posted Jun 22, 2023 4:38 UTC (Thu) by amir73il (subscriber, #66165) [Link]

Define "most stable experience" it could mean one thing or the opposite - "death" is the most stable health condition ;)

Joke aside, that's the vicious tradeoff between getting fewest updated vs. getting any known bug fix backported.

As a rule of thumb, I would answer your question with - take the latest "mature" LTS or the latest LTS that is officially maintained by XFS maintainers - ATM, this would be 5.15 because there is no xfs maintainer assigned to 6.1 yet.