On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Todd Berendes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just last week Red Hat released a kernel patch which fixes a bunch
> of fairly major problems. We need that patch primarily to fix the
> IRIX NFS server bug #36897.
> ( http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36897 )
>
> We have already installed the SGI XFS installer disk on our systems
> and do not want to undo any of that by installing Red Hat's patch.
>
> Someone has already released an NFS patched XFS installer disk at
> ftp://ftp.crc.dk/pub/rh71irixnfspatch with a "use at own risk"
> warning.
>
> Are you planning to release an update of your installer and patch
> RPM's using the new patched kernel anytime soon?
They are working on the 1.0.1 release which will be 2.4.5 based and a lot
better in stablity. It's "just around the corner".
> Any idea when the XFS patches will be integrated into the standard
> kernel and/or when RedHat will ship it?
See FAQ for kernel inclusion policy, there are distributions around that
might include it. So far the score is a RedHat 7.1 installer, Mandrake
8 kernels and possible inclusion, debian also has the patches floating
around as debian packages and beta install disks, slackware has some test
bootdisks (should add link to faq) and SuSE also seems to be slumbering on
the list.
> We were very happy to find XFS available for Linux. We have a number
> of SGI's using XFS and have been very pleased with the filesystem.
>
> Keep up the good work!
Nice to hear, we will.
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