Hi, On 17/12/2013 18:19, Herbert Poetzl wrote: >> About 2 years ago, people donated money in order to support >> stabilization based on a 3.0.x or 3.x kernel. > > And it was well spent on getting a working 3.x branch. > (3.0, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6-3.10) Good to know :) >> The latest information on this is from November 2011: > >> stabilization is going slowly, but steady and with >> good results IMHO, we already rewrote/cleaned up the >> CoW link breaking and parts of the debug system, and >> I'm currently preparing an advanced kernel build and >> test system (but more about that in a later mail :) > > Advanced kernel build system died off because nobody except > us was interested and existing services disappeared. Fair enough then! > Well, nobody expected that 3.x will stay a development > kernel and thus a moving target ... It seems there has been 3 "longterm" releases in 3.x since the beginning of 2012 … but I'm not sure that contradicts what you're saying, being a tad unfamiliar with this kind of terminology. Would you mind claritying? > Nevertheless, I consider recent 3.x patches at least as > stable as the mainline kernels, so something like vs2.3.6.8 > should work quite well and provide all the features you > know from Linux-VServer and mainline. That would be the key information I'm after. Thanks :) >> As far as I can tell, there has been no news since, so >> the official stable Linux-Vserver release is still kernel >> 2.6.22.19-vs2.2.0.7 from march 2008 :) > > Yes, that was the last patch 'officially' labeled 'stable'. > >> How is stabilization going nowadays? > > At the moment, we are trying to catch up with mainline, > i.e. 3.12/3.13 and as contributions have basically stopped, > we are doing the best to maintain the existing patches and > slowly adapt to recent changes. > >> Is there anything one can do to help? > > As usual, all help is welcome/appreciated. How ? :) It is a little difficult to track issues using the mailing-list alone so I'm not sure what to look for if I want to test a given kernel, for example. Cheers -- Romain PS: Oh and season's greetings to you all :)