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Re: Linux 2.4.4 + xfs

To: linux <dahouet@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.4 + xfs
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 10:22:53 -0500
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
References: <200105071537080970.00A6D1A0@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
"linux" wrote:

> i had a kernel 2.4.3 and i tried to compile it with xfs support in kernel
> and it failed ! i had gcc 2.95 , i installed kgcc with egcs 1.1.2
> and failed again. i didn't want to downgrade my kernel
> so i downloaded kernel 2.4.4.
> i applied the linux-2.4.4-xfs-TEST.patch (the  
> linux-2.4.4-xfs-cvs-05022001.patch.gz
> didn't work for me).

Could you provide some information about how these failed, so that we
can fix them if it's a real problem?

> 1.how stable is xfs with kernel 2.4.4 ?

Unknown - 2.4.4 is largely untested at this point.

> 2.is it sue to make the root filesystem xfs ?

Root XFS filesystems should be fine, many people are running that way.

-Eric

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Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
sandeen@xxxxxxx   SGI, Inc.

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