On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 07:37:42PM +1030, David Lloyd wrote:
>It's a development kernel. I lurk on the linux kernel list and there are
>"issues" happening with it all the time and it changes all the time. It's
>a "use only if you are really testing" type thing.
There are 'issues' with all kernels. If there wasn't, then 2.4
development would have stopped at 2.4.0 :-)
I've been running 2.5 XFS since 2.5.43 and have seen no corruption or
crashing. I sometimes get an oops when it's trying to power-off the
machine, but that's well after all filesystems have been unmounted.
It's also possible a non-standard module (mga_vid.o) is to blame.
One bug that I have seen with both 2.4.19-xfs and 2.5.*-xfs is that the
rpm database sometimes gets 'locked' so that no rpm queries can be done
as root. Other users can do an 'rpm -qa' with no problems... not sure if
this is a generic rpm problem an xfs (file locking?) issue.
It happens during rpm -Uvh when the install doesn't complete but
instead hangs forever and needs to be kill -9'd. After that strace
shows that root can't open /var/lib/rpm/Packages and it loops forever
in select() waiting to access it.
Its happened for me with RH7.3, RH8 and with 2.4.19-xfs cvs kernels and
current 2.5 cvs kernels.
Has anyone else seen behaviour like this?
cheers,
robin
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