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ned14 / llfio

P1031 low level file i/o and filesystem library for the C++ standard
https://ned14.github.io/llfio/
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Linux Minimal Kernel Version Support #122

Closed eyalgolan1337 closed 1 year ago

eyalgolan1337 commented 1 year ago

In the readme documentation it is mentioned that the library tries it's best effort to support Linux kernel version 2.6.32. I was wondering if that is because that is what library is tested on or because there are other limitations preventing the library from supporting even older kernels. Is there a list of required Linux features that one can check against for support? My specific requirement is 2.6.18, not that far from 2.6.32 but still.

ned14 commented 1 year ago

It is due to RHEL6.

You've got a good chance it will work on slightly older Linux kernels. Your bigger problem will be bugs in the Linux filesystems of such ancient kernels. I wouldn't use XFS in a 2.6 kernel, for example.