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Re: Fedora Core 2 with XFS

To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Fedora Core 2 with XFS
From: Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 08:33:57 +1000
Cc: Matthew Geier <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:21:45 EST." <411A2B79.8060104@sgi.com>
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:21:45 -0500, 
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>Keith Owens wrote:
>
>> One small data point.  Having just done two upgrades from RH9 to FC2
>> with nothing but XFS partitions, the upgrade worked fine.  However
>> there are hints (IOW I could be talking through my hat here) that the
>> 2.6 kernel in FC2 is more rigorous about checking XFS file structures
>> than the 2.4 kernel in RH8/9.  
>
>Keith, what makes you say this?  I take it that you saw problems which 
>prompted you to run repair over the filesystems?

On two laptops, running the upgrade got an XFS shutdown on / or /usr.
Both laptops had been shutdown in midflight many times while running
RH9, and had not run xfs_repair for some time.  RH9 had no problems
with those filesystems, FC2 did.

As I said, I could be talking through my hat here.  OTOH, it is good
practice to ensure that the filesystems are clean before doing a major
OS upgrade.


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