> ok - i've updated the XFS FAQ a bit yesterday and committed it right
> now (so it should appear on oss soon i think - it's the new one if
> the last questions is "Mounting or umounting an XFS root ...")
>
> please check it out if i have missed something or did something wrong
> so that i can update all this in a second round. i am especially
> interested in information about the following points:
>
> * current status of XFS on sw-RAID (russel are your patches in now -
> i don't think so - right? - any plans within this week?)
> * the current state of NFS on XFS - after the latest fixes - are
> there any issues remaining?
So far as I know, the CVS tree should now be OK on NFS, last week was
all performance problems, with an intermediate couple of days between
the first and last part of the fix.
> * gcc 2.96 - does the kernel now work with the updated redhat gcc
> 2.96 or with 2.95.2 - anyone checked it lately?
The latest redhat gcc does not build xfs - there are still compile errors
associated with the use of the do_div macros. Someone internally will get
to this eventually, but external help would probably get this sorted out
faster than we will right now. So for instance:
xfs_bmap.c:2830:36: warning: pasting would not give a valid preprocessing token
xfs_bmap.c: In function `xfs_bmap_del_extent':
xfs_bmap.c:3130: Unrecognizable insn:
(insn/i 254 252 4392 (parallel[
(set (reg:SI 0 eax)
(asm_operands ("") ("=a") 0[
(reg:DI 1 edx)
]
[
(asm_input:DI ("A"))
] ("linux/xfs_linux.h") 267))
(set (reg:SI 1 edx)
(asm_operands ("") ("=d") 1[
(reg:DI 1 edx)
]
[
(asm_input:DI ("A"))
] ("linux/xfs_linux.h") 267))
(clobber (reg:QI 19 dirflag))
(clobber (reg:QI 18 fpsr))
(clobber (reg:QI 17 flags))
] ) -1 (nil)
(nil))
xfs_bmap.c:3130: confused by earlier errors, bailing out
> * what is the current state of XFS on sparc64? - on the alpha (i may
> try it on the one here this week - but maybe someone else has it
> running right now)? - other arches so far?
No Knowledge here.
> * does XFS on LVM work out of the box (i.e. XFS tree plus lvm beta
> patches) now?
> * does anyone else haveany useful links for XFS (the "installing XFS
> as root fs" HOWTO, the precompiled rpm's, maybe some hidden docs
> about XFS etc.)? - if yes - please send me the url ...
> * is anyone using XFS in an production environment right now? - is
> anyone using XFS in a large scale (big SMP machine or large file-
> system) system on a regular basis?
I will have to leave it to external people to comment on this, I think
there are some which would classify as production, I am not sure how
big things get in terms of machine sizes etc.
>
> a lot of thanks in advance - please let me know if you have any
> condensed information about the above points
>
> t
>
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