Hi !
Perhaps there are some DEBIAN users listening who could help me:
I've patched Kernel2.4.0-test5 with the XFS-beta-patch. After
compiling with egcs 2.91.66 everything seemed to be OK.
(gcc 2.95.2 did not work like it is mentioned in the FAQ)
I'm using XFS on the /var,/usr,/home and /temp-partitions.
When I install new packages with dselect, a lot of install-
skripts fail ("cannot rmdir /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci"). There is
a controlfile in it, that was not removed.
If I remove it by hand, I can install the package but the next one stops
with the same error.
xfs_check said, that everything was ok.
Then I copied '/var/lib/dpkg' to an ext2fs-partition and mounted it with
'mount -t bind' in /var/lib/dpkg on the XFS-partition. Now everything
works fine.
I wonder, why the debian-skripts fail on an XFS-partition
and work fine on ext2fs. I don't know, if there are bugs in the
debian-package-system or if there is a bug in XFS.
It's a bit strange, that the same file is removed on ext2fs-partitions
and not on XFS-partitions.
Nevertheless I'm very impressed by XFS.
Thanks, Ralf
P.S: My machine is an Athlon 800, 2 IDE-Drives, XFS compiled
into the kernel.
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