On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 12:57, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 12:51:48PM -0600, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 12:49, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > [...]
> > > 2.4.19-aa1 has XFS 1.1 that eats lots of stack. Please update to a
> > > resent
> > > XFS tree (like the ones in 2.4.20pre5aa and following). Also make
> sure
> > > you don't use a broken stack-eating storage driver like the qlogic
> ones.
> >
> > hrmm....that may be more difficult than it sounds...Is this error
> fatal?
>
> Yes, stackoverflows can cause random memory corruption.
>
> > Is there something I can do to my 2.4.19-aa1, to just update the XFS
> > code, so our codebase for our kernels can just be versioned? I would
> > prefer to have our current 2.4.19 kernel, with updated xfs bits.
>
> It's certainly possible, but you need to patch it in yourself :)
Hot damn. I'll try it.
> Take 2.4.19-aa1, remove the 7* patches and try to fit in the XFS
> 1.2-pre2
> or current CVS patches. There will be lots of rejects that need fixing.
NP, not like I haven't done that before! :)
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