Originally posted as a reply to this, and moved to its own thread by moderator. So this is the sort of problem kernel changes make in the HPC world where proprietary parallel file systems are common (think GPFS/Panasas/Weka etc.) My experience is mainly with GPFS (currently called StorageScale by IBM) over the last two decades. I can also imagine problems with NVidia drivers for GPU’s too, though those are somewhat more tolerant to kernel changes in my experience. My current solution as I h...
