[OpenAFS] Re: sysname for 3.x linux kernel

[Derrick Brashear]

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Dan Scott <danieljamesscott@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 14:57, Andrew Deason <adeason@sinenomine.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 14:44:28 -0500
>> Dan Scott <danieljamesscott@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way to have a 'fallback' directory for @sys? i.e. If
>>> amd64_linux32 doesn't exist, then it should use the amd64_linux31
>>> directory instead. Or maybe we can have a amd64_linux3 sysname for all
>>> 3.x linux kernels?
>>
>> 'fs sysname'. You can set this to anything you want, including multiple
>> values.
>
> Thanks. So it should 'fallback' by default? Would be nice if there was
> a default amd64_linux3 though... :)
>
>>> I can see the advantages of having different names for 2.4,2.6 and 3.
>>> kernels, but do we really need a new sysname every 3 months or so?
>>
>> I thought we did keep the *_linux26 sysname, since there are no
>> significant technical differences between 2.6 vs 3.* so far. What
>> version and packaging, etc are we talking about here?
>
> This is on Fedora 16+RPMFusion:
>
> djscott@n6:~$ fs sysname
> Current sysname list is 'amd64_fedora_16' 'amd64_linux32'
>
> I don't know if the default sysname comes from upstream OpenAFS or if
> it's set in the RPMFusion packages.

it's not from OpenAFS.

-- 
Derrick