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Re: For those people with IDE problems with XFS

To: Joakim Bodin <joabo552@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: For those people with IDE problems with XFS
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:40:15 -0600
Cc: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>, Linux-XFS Mailing List <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: Message from Joakim Bodin <joabo552@student.liu.se> of "Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:26:03 +0100." <3A8A6B4B.70007@student.liu.se>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Joakim Bodin wrote:
> Steve Lord wrote:
> 
> > If you are using the development tree and ide is blowing chunks for you,
> > can you try the following patch, it removes some of the code added for
> > the kio patch, and backports some changes from 2.4.2-pre3 which fix ide
> > problems. No guarantees on this one but for me it appears to be working
> > here.
> > 
> > I think you can expect to see 2.4.2-pre3 in a day or so, it may be a real
> > 2.4.2 by then.
> > 
> > Steve
> > 
> I just want to report that this seems to fix all the lockup problems 
> I've been having since xfs cvs moved to 2.4.1. It survives big slocates 
> and compiles that locked it up previously. This is a P2-300, 128MB RAM 
> with ide disk using udma33.
> 
> Joakim Bodin

Thanks for the feedback,

We are fixing up some issues with kiobufs and multmode ide, once this is
done I will either push this code into the 2.4.1 tree, or bring the tree
up to 2.4.2-pre3. I was hoping to see a 2.4.2 come out by now and base the
tree on that but we are still waiting.

Steve



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