Subject: Re: [vserver] Which util-vserver version for which patch version?
From: "Daniel Hokka Zakrisson" <daniel@hozac.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:46:02 +0200 (CEST)

Markus Fischer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently running 2.6.21.6 with 2.2.0.1 and utils 0.30.212 .
>
> I plan to test with 2.6.22.19 with 2.2.0.7 and maybe also with 2.3.0.34.
> I'm
> trying to get cifs fs mounting in guest running and it doesn't work with
> the
> current setup because of some weird thing with kernel module threads or
> so.
>
> Anyway, is keeping 0.30.212 for those two newer versions safe? And if I've
> to
> uprade the utils, can I use them safely in case I need to switch back to
> 2.2.0.1 ?

For 2.3, you'll need recent utils as all the legacy stuff has been
removed, and new features aren't available without them.

The utils are massively backwards-compatible. 0.30.215 should work fine on
just about any kernel, barring a few experimental patches that don't
implement features as expected.

-- 
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson