Ed W wrote: > Natanael Copa wrote: >> On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 08:16 +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote: >> >>> after the rather dramatic changes in 2.6.23-25, we >>> will need a somewhat longer devel phase around >>> 2.6.25 to get some things sorted out ... >>> >> >> The question that rises is how to get more of vserver into mainline? >> > > Funny - having seen some of the changes on 2.6.25 and how they overlap > some of the vserver goals I was thinking something very similar? > Someone else recently requested a separate patch for COW and I agree > that this would be useful for a couple of projects I was mulling over. > Perhaps some of the vserver patches are ready to start pushing upstream? > > >>> testing and other contributions are welcome, but >>> don't expect a 'stable' release for post 2.6.22.x >>> anytime soon ... >>> >> >> I take the opportunity to than you guys for the hard work you are doing >> there. As someone else posted on this list: vserver is awesome! >> > > Absolutely. I don't understand why anyone wouldn't want to use vservers > straight out of the box on all new servers! In fact I really don't > understand why people aren't screaming for this in mainline? Even for > desktop use it seems great - simple to fart around with a test install > or a new update. About to start testing it with X... I just love the > ease you can copy the vserver image, boot it up and test something, then > pack it away again. > > Is there a key person we could sponsor to work on this for a period to > get it tracking mainline again? Daniel? Herbert? How much would it > cost to sponsor your development time? You should talk to Herbert. He'd love to see some donations to speed up the port to 2.6.2[45]. -- Daniel Hokka Zakrisson