Re: XFS for Linux 1.0.1 Released

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 13:18 11-7-2001 +0200, Ries van Twisk wrote:
> O>Currently it's runing for 14 day's now without problems.
> >
> > The problem is not really with the raid hardware itself but the driver.
> > When they resolve that we will use it again. There have been reports of
> > corruption under high load. See http://domsch.com/linux/
> Th only problem with data curruption are the access database file but that is
> really a Samba problem. So far no problem found. But my system runs under
> low loads about 25 Samba users on a 10Mb network.

That is a low load.

> > >I also applied the XFS patch to the Linux 2.4.5 kernel.
> > >It all compiles fine now.
> >
> > Always make sure to use kgcc for production systems.
> Never know that there was a kgcc version! I just use gcc version 2.95.2.

What distribution is this? If it is debian or SuSE I recomend upgrading 
your compiler to at least 2.95.3 or 4.
You can have hung processes or file system corruption when using the older 
compiler. kgcc is actually a redhat-ism. But it is just gcc 2.91-66 or egcs 
1.1.2. If you can get that you are safe.

> > >It's not tested on my PE 2400 server yet but the kernel itself works 
> great on
> > >a test IDE systeem.
> >
> > It should work fine, we have two 2450 servers running at work but with a
> > AMI megaraid. I got tired of each patching my kernel for every new version
> > with the aacraid patch.
> I just upgraded it to 2.4.5 and want to install xfs on it as soon as Samba
> compiles fine with acl from xfs. That I'll leave it alone again.
> >
> > >I'm currently buzy to compiling Samba aswell but I still have some 
> problems
> > >with ACL.
> >
> > 2.2.1 I presume? I did download it but I will have to see of it compiles
> > under NCR Unix first.
> Yes a 2.2.1 version. But it does not compile with acl support :-(
>
> Samba expect the files in sys/ and not in acl/ and the header file are 
> different.

Yes these files have moved. You may be able to specify the location with a 
--with-acl=/usr/include/acl or something like that. If not, you will have 
to walk through the code to see where the configure script is looking and 
change that. I guess the samba folks were probably caught off guard.

Cheers

--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.