On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 8:30 AM, Antonio SJ Musumeci wrote: > My users span several generations of Debian (and other) Linux distributions. > Early 2.9.X versions of libfuse had bugs which led to "random" crashes. > These versions are still in wide use (I get 2.8.x users on occasion too). > Over past couple years I've spent countless hours tracking down issues > related to these buggy versions and helping (often inexperienced) users > upgrade their systems. This is the core reason I decided to embed libfuse > 2.9.7 into mergerfs.
If faced with this situation myself, personally I think I would have marked those versions of libfuse as explicitly unsupported using both build and run time checks. People building from source would then need to backport libfuse before updating mergefs. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
