[Gluster-devel] GlusterFS 3.0pre1 (Whats in 3.0)

[Anand Avati]

> Is the detection based on kernel version or feature detection? The reason I
> ask is because there are heavily patched distro kernels like RHEL that are
> widely used, which nominally have a relatively low version number (2.6.18)
> but come with an awful lot of patches and features (1000+ by now IIRC) that
> add functionality from recent kernels?

Detection is based on the ABI version the fuse kernel module exports.
Essentially it is detecting the feature and does not care about what
the kernel module version is.

Avati