GNU bug report logs - #20826
SEEK_HOLE not supported for ext4 for kernel < 3.1

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Reported by: Johannes Meixner <jsmeix <at> suse.de>

Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 10:40:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com>, Johannes Meixner <jsmeix <at> suse.de>,  20826 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Bug-gnulib <bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#20826: SEEK_HOLE not supported for ext4 for kernel < 3.1
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 17:38:04 -0700

As I understand from <https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html>, Linux 
releases before 3.1 are no longer supported as of "mid-2015", which is right 
around now.  Also, OpenSUSE 11.4 (based on kernel 2.6.37 -- does this have the 
kernel bug in question?) is seeing its support end this month, and all other 
supported openSUSE systems have kernels newer than 3.1.

Given all this, I'm inclined to mark this bug as "wontfix" for Grep.  This case 
(though borderline) seems to fall more on the museum-piece side, and we don't 
want to take on the burden of supporting museum pieces.
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