Re: linux 2.4.2-XFS

[jansen <jansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Russell Cattelan wrote:

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> The pending release of XFS 1.0.1 will be RH7.1 and 2.4.4 based, and will
> be based primarily on what is in the development tree... once the list
> or problems has been whittled down.

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I realize that you all have a great many other things to do and fixing
non-XFS related kernel bugs is not your focus but having said that
I'd really like to see the patch for the IRIX -> Linux NFS directory bug 
(where files are missing when doing an "ls *" in a directory served via
NFS from an IRIX server) be included in the next XFS release.  I believe
this was mentioned on the list about three weeks ago.  There is a patch
that appears to fix this in the 1.0 release (with a little modification
since the patch is for stock 2.4.2).  I believe there was also a patch
for 2.4.4 but I haven't had the time to try it.

This bug initially stopped me from installing the 1.0 release on all
my Linux machines because we have a fair number of IRIX machines 
serving files via NFS and this bug caused a whole host of problems.

The patches for this bug can be found at:

http://www.fys.uio.no/~trondmy/src

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------- Stephan