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Re: XFS on recent -ac kernels

To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: XFS on recent -ac kernels
From: Dirk Steinberg <dws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 10:56:15 +0200
Cc: linux-xfs <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Eric Sandeen wrote:
> For starters, you can get the kdb patch for any of Linus' kernels from
> oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb, to back that out of XFS CVS (possibly with a
> conflict or two).
> 
> Alternatively, look in the testing/Release-1.0.1/patches directory on
> the XFS ftp site, this actually has some patches broken down into
> xfs-only, lvm, kdb, etc.  These patches reflect the state of CVS about
> 2-3 weeks ago.
> 
> -Eric

What has changed in CVS since then? Is there any CVS tag from the
time the Release-1.0.1 snapshot was made?

- Dirk

> Dirk Steinberg wrote:
> > is there any version of XFS that patches into
> > recent versions of the -ac series kernels, such
> > as 2.4.5-ac17?
> >
> > The problem with the CVS tree is that it contains
> > a lot of other stuff besides the actual XFS fs
> > (IOAPIC, kdb, lvm patches, ...) that conflicts
> > with the -ac patches.
> >
> > Alternatively, is there any way to cleanly extract only
> > the XFS/kio portion from the CVS tree as a patch against
> > plain 2.4.5?
> >
> > Or else, can anyone provide the original patches that
> > went into CVS of the non-XFS stuff (kdb, ...)?

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