Steve Lord wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I get a little bit confused.
>
> I do not blame you, I really wish there were at least more README files out
> there on the web/ftp site.
I apologize for not keeping up with this.
I have updated and added some READMEs, hopefully this will
be a bit clearer.
Guess I tend to send info like this to the email list forgetting that not
everybody grabbing XFS is reading the list.
>
> There are really two legs of xfs development right now, the 'development'
> tree, only truly accessable via cvs which is where the latest code can be
> found, and the 'release' tree which is a more slow moving tree were only
> bug fixes are going in.
>
> > I have 2.4.3 kernel, and I applied:
> > linux-2.4.3-xfs-cvs-04022001.patch.gz
> > And, for now, it works.
>
> This is correct, however, the intent of this patch is to seed a cvs tree
> so that you can do cvs updates from our cvs repository. The patch gets
> regenerated periodically, I cannot remember how often, but this one is 3
> weeks old, the cvs tree is updated every hour from our internal development
> tree. I would recommend doing a cvs update, see this web page for details:
>
> http://linux-xfs.sgi.com/projects/xfs/cvs_download.html
>
> You should use the linux-2.4-xfs cvs tree
>
> I suspect you will see a lot of changes since the April 2nd patch, this is
> the development tree and a lot of changes have gone in recently, nothing
> earth shattering though, a few bug fixes, and a lot of code cleanup.
>
> >
> > But in directory Release-1.0-test3 are other patches:
> > RHlinux-2.4.2-core-xfs-04162001.patch
> > linux-2.4.2-core-xfs-04192001.patch
> > linux-2.4.2-kdb-04112001.patch
> > linux-2.4.2-xfs-04192001.patch
>
> These are patches being used in the generation of rpm packages for the
> 'release' of xfs. The core-xfs patches represent changes to the base
> linux kernel, the -xfs- patch is the xfs code itself, the same patch
> being usable with different base kernel patches. These patches and
> the associated cvs tree (currently linux-2.4-xfs-beta I think) are 2.4.2
> based and are only getting bug fixes.
>
> >
> > In other directories is also a loop patch.
>
> This should make the loop device work in a 2.4.2 based kernel.
>
> >
> > So, what is the linux-xfs patch, and linux-xfs-core patch?
> > What is the difference between RHlinux-core-xfs patch and linux-core-xfs
> > patch?
> >
> > And, are all these patches contained in xfs-cvs patch!?
>
> The 2.4.3 patch is getting a bit dated when it comes to bug fixes, hopefully,
> after applying the patch you do not need too much internet bandwidth to
> do a cvs update.
>
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Olaf
>
> Steve
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Linux XFS core developer.
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