[Maria-discuss] Current Kernel/Distro with best support for performance/stability for VMs (HyperV)

Hi I've been looking for improvements in block device handling / XFS filesystem on linux kernel and it looks like that on Kernel 4.11 there is some interesting improvements Im looking to settle on a newer distro/kernel which supports MariaDB 10.2 and ColumnStore and have a long term support. its a new deployment Thanks