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Re: Stability of the Red Hat 7.1 + XFS system

To: Micah Yoder <yodermk@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Stability of the Red Hat 7.1 + XFS system
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 14:01:50 -0500
Cc: Juha Saarinen <juha@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx" <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106121020360.5609-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <0106111659380F.01070@eclipse>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Micah Yoder wrote:
> 
> Well, they got the server back up.  Said /etc/rc.d/rc.local was "complete
> gobledegook".

Is that the technical term?  :)   Was it full of null characters?  i.e.

^0^0^0^0^0^0....

in vi?  That could be a pre-allocated / null-character filled file if
the data on rc.local had been changed, but had not flushed to disk, when
the box hung.  

> I'm back in and everything else seems to be in OK shape.
> 
> Is there a fairly straightforward way to upgrade the kernel and XFS?  I'm a
> little wary of using 2.4.5 because of the swapping issues.  But it might be
> worth a shot.

We'll have RPM upgrades in the hopefully not-too-distant future.

-Eric

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