The problem that I have reported should not be Abit specific. Abit does
has a lot of problems in stability - but not in the reported way. Most of
the problem seems to be either random hang (which I seldom encounter)
or hamless error messages on lost sync in SMP (the hardware will retry
and succeed). Both of the reported problems are reproducible.
The last kernel that I used extensively was 2.3.51...
If there is anything else that I noticed about XFS was it's size. Compared
to the last kernel that I used, the inclusion of XFS has increase the kernel
size by
200K after bzip compression - from 600K+ to 800K+ - a sizable increase...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kip Macy" <kmacy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Steve Lord" <lord@xxxxxxx>
Cc: "Tan Pong Heng" <pongheng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 1:46 AM
Subject: Re: XFS as Root partition
> This may not apply to you, but in addition to the problems with XFS as /,
there
> are know problems with 2.3.x kernels on Abit motherboards with Maxtor
drives.
> Have you tried running a 2.3.x kernel prior to this without XFS in it?
>
> -Kip
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Kip Macy kmacy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> University of California, Berkeley
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Steve Lord wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Root partition support is not there yet, and XFS is not really stable
> > enough to be a root (or /usr) filesystem yet.
> >
> > Thanks for trying though!
> >
> > Steve Lord
> >
> > > Hi, I am new to the list. I have just install the linux-XFS and
created
> > > a 4GB partition
> > > for XFS. I have some problems that I would like to report.
> > > (BTW - my system is a BP6 with dual celeron 366, 128MB RAM, a 20GB
> > > Maxtor on
> > > the ATA66 channel.)
> > > 1) My first try was to include all options for XFS - which include the
> > > META option.
> > > This cause a hard hang on one of the CPU. After reading one of
the
> > > recent message,
> > > I turned that off and was able to copy my 4GB / to the XFS -
which
> > > originally
> > > hanged.
> > > 2) While the second try seems to work properly - I was not able to
boot
> > > the system
> > > with the XFS root partition. The boot process hanged before init
> > > run. (/boot is
> > > a small ext2.) Is this a known problem? And, is there a work
around?
> > >
> > > Other than these, XFS seems to ork - but than again, I did not try out
> > > enough yet -
> > > haven't decided on how best to load it beside using it as /....
> >
>
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