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
--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.
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