Re: patch 2.6.30 and 2.6.30.1 xfs/nfs oops fix, radix tree

[Martin Spott <Martin.Spott@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Ole Olsen wrote:

> Eric has been very helpful in helping me downgrade xfs in 2.6.30.1 to 2.6.28.7
> version (getting 2.6.28.7 to compile in 2.6.30.1) which removed the oopses.
> 
> Just wanted to post here for other people like me that don't have an option
> of downgrading their kernel (need i.e. mdadm>=2.6.30).

A little side note here: Just I as an excercise, because I'm a curious
person, I performed a similar procedure, taking the xfs sources from
2.6.28.10, put them into a 2.6.30.2 tree, applied the patch and finally
booted the resulting kernel:
Don't try this on a machine you don't have console access to  ;-)

Cheers,
        Martin.
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