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Re: xfs 1.3.1 patch for kernel 2.4.19?

To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: xfs 1.3.1 patch for kernel 2.4.19?
From: Junfeng Yang <yjf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 14:28:34 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <1091653925.5415.50.camel@stout.americas.sgi.com>
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cool!
Thanks a lot!

On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Eric Sandeen wrote:

> http://oss.sgi.com/~sandeen/linux-2.4.19-xfs contains
> patches for top of tree xfs to work with 2.4.19, for the stanford
> checker folks.
>
> linux-2.4.19-xfs-TOT-core.patch - patch for core linux 2.4.19 tree
> xfs-TOT-for-2.4.19.patch        - patch against latest fs/xfs from CVS
>
> This builds & functions basically for me, although I do manage to hit
> some bugs in core kernel changes that existed in 2.4.19, because I took
> the existing core 2.4.19 patch to start with.
>
> If these bugs get in the way of testing, please let me know.
>
> -Eric
>
>
> On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 23:05, Junfeng Yang wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm a Ph.D. student in Prof. Dawson Engler's checking group.  Currently
> > our group is working on a file system checking tool.  We've checked ext3,
> > IBM JFS and reiserfs and found serious bugs in all of them.  We would like
> > to check XFS since it is even more widely used.  Unfortunately the kernel
> > that we based our checker on is 2.4.19, and I couldn't find a 1.3.1 core
> > patch for 2.4.19.  I tried to apply linux-2.4.21-core-xfs-1.3.1.patch but
> > 12 hunks failed. I'm wondering if you guys have a 2.4.19 xfs-1.3.1 core
> > patch that I can download.
> >
> > Thanks a lot,
> > -Junfeng
> --
> Eric Sandeen      [C]XFS for Linux   http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
> sandeen@xxxxxxx   SGI, Inc.          651-683-3102
>


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