Re: How to use Michael Cohen's kernel

[Stephen Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

Seth Mos wrote:

> At 15:08 21-1-2002 -0600, Stephen Lord wrote:
>
> > Eric Sandeen wrote:
> >
> > Daniel Robbins of gentoo has been in touch with me separately about 
> > problems
> > they are having with xfs in this tree - filesystem corruption. So I 
> > would hold off
> > for a while. We are attempting to workout what is going wrong.
>
>
> I suggest that people test a 2.4.17 release well before using it in 
> production. This is the first time that I see a lot off people with 
> filesystem corruption (not to be confused with oopses).
>
> 2.4.17 _is_ working alright for a lot of people as well but it is not 
> safe perse.
> And looking from the gentoo page there are no fixes in 18-pre3 that 
> help out XFS since this probably means they are still seeing problems.
>
> People who want to be absolutely safe might better well use 2.4.16. At 
> least that one didn't make filesystem corruption afaik. 


Filesystem corruption at the start of the fs should be gone now in the 
cvs code, and this was happening
after forced shutdown. If someone thinks they have an open corruption 
issue with 2.4.17 please tell
us about it, nothing I have seen so far has been caused by 2.4.17, 
rather people seem to be doing more
things and pushing more problems out into the open. The mjc kernel is a 
different matter - but then
the patch from 2.4.17 is 5.3Mbytes in size.

Steve