If anyone is attempting their own 2.4.5 xfs merge, you will need to go
change the value of NR_GFPINDEX in include/linux/mmzone.h back to 0x100,
otherwise you will die very quickly running xfs. Look for a complete
patch/cvs update in a couple of days.
Steve
> 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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