Re: Kernel patches

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

Patches are made available on a regular basis on 
ftp://linux-xfs.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download

These patches are always regression tested before releasing them in the 
open. So it might just take some time before a 2.4.5 patch makes the ftp 
server or cvs that is regression tested.

I don't like patches that make my machine crash, but I hate the patches 
that eat my filesystem. So I can wait for now.

It looks like 2.4.5 will be available in a few days or so.

Cheers


At 19:46 26-5-2001 -0600, D. Stimits wrote:
> About a year ago I attended a Linux Expo where the XFS filesystem was
> demonstrated (and it was impressive). At the time it was still being
> "unencumbered", so I was unable to do anything with it. I'm now in the
> process of trying to load a new machine, but find the patches haven't
> kept up with newer kernel releases. I'm using SMP x86 which has had a
> number of kernel changes which fix problems which were serious enough
> that I can't see using the 2.4.2 or 2.4.3 kernel with, and want to
> instead use the 2.4.5 kernel. Of the available patches, 2.4.5 works
> completely with the patch "linux-2.4-xfs-1.0.patch", but the 2nd patch,
> "linux-2.4.3-core-xfs-1.0.patch", fails in several places on 2.4.5
> source (regardless of whether linux-2.4-xfs-1.0.patch is applied first
> or 2nd). Normally I would be willing to test something like this out to
> see if the failed chunks will cause failure, but with a filesystem, this
> leaves me nervous.
>
> My hopes are that XFS can make its way directly into the kernel source,
> even if it is marked as "experimental". Until then, the next best thing
> would be new patches becoming available very quickly after a new kernel
> is announced. Can anyone give me an estimate on when a patch suitable
> for 2.4.5 kernel will be available? Is there any kind of announcement or
> devel email list I can join to track XFS development?
>
> Thanks,
> D. Stimits, stimits@xxxxxxxxxx

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Seth
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it was written and another for which it wasn't
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