Re: Xfs Access to block zero exception and system crash

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sagar Borikar wrote:
> 
> Dave Chinner wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 04:13:11PM +1000, Nathan Scott wrote:


>>> You can always try the reverse - replace fs/xfs from your mips build
>>> tree with the one from the current/a recent kernel.  Theres very few
>>> changes in the surrounding kernel code that xfs needs.
>>>     
>> Eric should be able to comment on the pitfalls in doing this having
>> tried to backport a 2.6.25 fs/xfs to a 2.6.18 RHEL kernel. Eric -
>> any comments?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Dave.
>>   
> Eric, Could you please let me know about bits and pieces that we need to 
> remember while back porting xfs to 2.6.18?
> If you share patches which takes care of it, that would be great.

http://sandeen.net/rhel5_xfs/xfs-2.6.25-for-rhel5-testing.tar.bz2

should be pretty close.  It was quick 'n' dirty and it has some warts
but would give an idea of what backporting was done (see patches/ and
the associated quilt series; quilt push -a to apply them all)

-Eric