On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 12:09 +1100, Barry Naujok wrote:
Lazy superblock counters was released into mainline in 2.6.23-rc1.
Some
distros are still running an older kernel (2.6.22 for example) and
with
(many distros? RHEL5 and SLES10 wont have such recent kernels yet,
right?)
the latest xfsprogs, cannot mount a freshly made filesystem with
default
options.
This patch make lazy counters default back to off now.
Looks good, thanks.
Users who have a more recent kernel can easily enable them with mkfs
or
xfs_admin -c1 (in a patch posted out a few days ago which will be in
the
same xfsprogs release as this patch).
Lazy counters will default to on again in xfsprogs 2.10.0 (when CI
support
is released). This should give enough time for distro kernels to catch
up.
Hmm, that still seems pretty soon to me. I'd have thought you'd at
least want to wait until most of the distributions (esp. SUSE for you
guys) have released versions that have kernels sufficiently recent
that the default mkfs will work. Otherwise this will be a recurring
problem.
