At 23:31 17-6-2001 +0200, Knuth Posern wrote:
Hi.
Thanks for your fast and long answer!
> not suffered data as of yet. (knock on wood). I have no expierence about
> XFS over Raid5. I have the number of disks for it but unfortunately not
Did you hear something about XFS over Software-RAID5?
I ment XFS over software Raid5. Hardware raid practically always works
unless the hardware raid driver is broken.
> YMMV when using it.
YMMV?
Sorry for the slang, Your mileage may vary
> The only problems with md is running in degraded mode. But it does work.
md is one of the XFS-utils? - I didn't look at them yet...
It's not, md is the kernel driver. When your raid misses one disk it will
run in degraded mode. This when XFS will perform worse. When you replace
the disk the resyncing was not always op to speed.
> It is on the FTP site. ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/patches/
> The cvs tree is currently at 2.4.6-pre3.
Is it o.k. to use the 2.4.3-version at the moment (because in the Readme
on the server it said: ... 2.4.3 is not so heavily tested) - or should I
use always the newest XFS-patch for the actual kernel (which would be
2.4.5 with something as linux-2.4.5-xfs-06112001.patch.bz2 at the moment).
This readme was made when 1.0 was released. You should pick up the latest
XFS patch. There are numerous fixes on the linux kernel front which also
make XFS behave better.
Are the newest patches in CVS or on the ftp-server?
The patches on the FTP site have the same fixes as the ones that are
commited to CVS.
The CVS tree however also tracks Linus -pre versions. But the patches are
provided for people that don't want to run -pre kernels.
> Most people reported succes with 2.95.3+ and there have been some fixes
> for the tree for compiling with newer kernels.
Hmmm. 2.95.3+ does it mean 2.95.3 or higher or is it the name of this
gcc-version?
or higher. Make sure you use 2.4.5 or later since that contains the patches.
> Try compiling the tree first with your native compiler and see what
> happens.
But the problems reported on the mailing-list with the gcc 2.95 occured
afterwards (while using XFS), or?
The problems with 2.95 were hanging processes. I believe this also occured
on normal kernels.
That is the only problem with 2.95 I know of.
Bye
--
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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