Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f3JGUW616304 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:30:32 -0700 Received: from ocean.lucon.org (c1473286-a.stcla1.sfba.home.com [24.176.137.160]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3JGUTM16300 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:30:29 -0700 Received: by ocean.lucon.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0FC98125B3; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:30:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:30:29 -0700 From: "H . J . Lu" To: b.j.smith@ieee.org, thebs@theseus.com Cc: Chip Salzenberg , Samuel Flory , linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [NFS] Re: VALinux and Ext3 -- Chip & Samuel's responses Message-ID: <20010419093029.A22347@lucon.org> References: <3ADD9BBD.DECCC102@ieee.org> <20010418150552.T7975@valinux.com> <3ADF0F19.B95F9EA2@ieee.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3ADF0F19.B95F9EA2@ieee.org>; from b.j.smith@ieee.org on Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:15:22PM -0400 Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:15:22PM -0400, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > > In fact, I've been using Ext3 in v1 mode (full-data journaling) > since mid-2000 -- with your kernel's nonetheless (HJL's RPMs for > RedHat)! Many other people have downloaded and used your 6.2.4 > distro with Ext3. Since ReiserFS has issues with kNFSd on kernel > 2.2., it wasn't an option for my production UNIX network with NFS > everywhere (with 90% of our apps being UNIX-based). > Just for the record, I do have updated kernel rpms based on kernel-2.2.18pre11-va2.1.src.rpm. I fixed an ext3/LFS integration bug. But 1. They are for RedHat 7.x only. I no longer have RedHat 6.2 machines. 2. I have no places to put them for ftp. I am enclosing my ChangeLog here. H.J. --- 2001-04-15 H.J. Lu * linux-2.2.19-tulip.patch: New. A tulip patch from 2.2.19. * Makefile (VA-SOURCES): Add linux-2.2.19-tulip.patch. * kernel.spec (VARelease): Set to 0.26. Apply linux-2.2.19-tulip.patch. 2001-04-11 H.J. Lu * Makefile (REDHAT-RELEASE): Set to va2.1. * kernel.spec: Updated for 2.2.18pre11-va2.1. (VARelease): Set to 0.25. Don't apply VA's Adaptec driver update. 2001-04-09 H.J. Lu * linux-aic7xxx-6.1.10-6.1.11.patch: New. A patch from 6.1.10 to 6.1.11. * Makefile (VA-SOURCES): Add linux-aic7xxx-6.1.10-6.1.11.patch. * kernel.spec (VARelease): Set to 0.24. Apply linux-aic7xxx-6.1.10-6.1.11.patch. 2001-04-06 H.J. Lu * linux-aic7xxx-6.1.6-defconfig.patch: New. A patch for 6.1.6 defconfig. * linux-aic7xxx-6.1.9-6.1.10.patch: New. A patch from 6.1.9 to 6.1.10. * linux-aic7xxx-6.1.8-6.1.9.patch: New. A patch from 6.1.8 to 6.1.9. * Makefile (VA-SOURCES): Add linux-aic7xxx-6.1.6-defconfig.patch, linux-aic7xxx-6.1.8-6.1.9.patch and linux-aic7xxx-6.1.9-6.1.10.patch. * kernel.spec (VARelease): Set to 0.23. Apply linux-aic7xxx-6.1.6-defconfig.patch, linux-aic7xxx-6.1.8-6.1.9.patch and linux-aic7xxx-6.1.9-6.1.10.patch. * kernel-2.2-i386-BOOT.config (CONFIG_AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY_MS): New. Set to 5. * kernel-2.2-i386-smp.config: Likewise. * kernel-2.2-i586-smp.config: Likewise. * kernel-2.2-i686-smp.config: Likewise. 2001-03-25 H.J. Lu * linux-aic7xxx-6.1.7-6.1.8.patch: New. A patch from 6.1.7 to 6.1.8. * Makefile (VA-SOURCES): Add linux-aic7xxx-6.1.7-6.1.8.patch. * kernel.spec (VARelease): Set to 0.22. Apply linux-aic7xxx-6.1.7-6.1.8.patch. 2001-03-23 H.J. Lu * linux-2.2.18-kdb-size.patch: Also increase reserved kernel size for kdb symbol table. 2001-03-23 H.J. Lu * pcmcia-cs-3.1.25-kdb.patch: New. A patch for kdb from David Hinds. * linux-2.2.18pre11-ext3-race.patch: New. Fix a race condition in ext3. * linux-2.2.18-kdb-size.patch: New. Increase KDBMAXSYMTABSIZE to 15000 for NVIDIA kernel driver. * Makefile (VA-SOURCES): Add linux-2.2.18-kdb-size.patch and linux-2.2.18pre11-ext3-race.patch. Replace pcmcia-cs-3.1.25-autoconf.patch with pcmcia-cs-3.1.25-kdb.patch, * kernel.spec (VARelease): Set to 0.21. Apply linux-2.2.18-kdb-size.patch and linux-2.2.18pre11-ext3-race.patch. Replace pcmcia-cs-3.1.25-autoconf.patch with pcmcia-cs-3.1.25-kdb.patch, 2001-03-17 H.J. Lu * kernel-2.2-i686-smp.config (CONFIG_SEMAPHORE_DEADLOCK): Unset. * kernel.spec (VARelease): Set to 0.20. 2001-03-17 H.J. Lu * pcmcia-cs-3.1.25-autoconf.patch: New. A patch to include for all kernel modules. * Makefile (VA-SOURCES): Add pcmcia-cs-3.1.25-autoconf.patch. * kernel.spec: Apply pcmcia-cs-3.1.25-autoconf.patch. 2001-03-16 H.J. Lu * kernel.spec (BuildPCMCIA): Pass --kcc="$KERNELCC" to ./Configure. 2001-03-16 H.J. Lu * linux-aic7xxx-6.1.6-6.1.7.patch: New. A patch from 6.1.6 to 6.1.7. * Makefile (VA-SOURCES): Add linux-aic7xxx-6.1.6-6.1.7.patch. * kernel.spec: Apply linux-aic7xxx-6.1.6-6.1.7.patch. 2001-03-16 H.J. Lu * Makefile (VA-SOURCES): Remove pcmcia-cs-3.1.21-aic7xxx.patch. * kernel.spec: Remove pcmcia-cs-3.1.21-compat.patch and pcmcia-cs-3.1.21-aic7xxx.patch. 2001-03-15 H.J. Lu * pcmcia-cs-3.1.25-install.patch: New. Updated linux-2.2.16-pcmcia-install.patch for pcmcia-cs 3.1.25. * pcmcia-cs-3.1.25-xircom.patch: New. Updated pcmcia-cs-3.1.21-xirom.patch for pcmcia-cs 3.1.25. * Makefile (FOREIGN-TARS): Add pcmcia-cs-3.1.25.tar.gz. (VA-SOURCES): Add pcmcia-cs-3.1.25-install.patch. Remove pcmcia-cs-3.1.21-compat.patch. Replace pcmcia-cs-3.1.21-xirom.patch with pcmcia-cs-3.1.25-xircom.patch. * kernel-2.2-i686-smp.config (CONFIG_NMI_WATCHDOG): Unset. * kernel.spec (pcmciaver): Set to 3.1.25. Replace linux-2.2.16-pcmcia-install.patch with pcmcia-cs-3.1.25-install.patch. Replace pcmcia-cs-3.1.21-xirom.patch with pcmcia-cs-3.1.25-xircom.patch. Don't apply pcmcia-cardmgr-libxpm.patch. Don't apply pcmcia-cs-3.1.21-aic7xxx.patch. Don't apply pcmcia-cs-3.1.21-compat.patch. 2001-03-15 H.J. Lu * kernel-2.2-i686-smp.config (CONFIG_SEMAPHORE_DEADLOCK): Set to `y'. (CONFIG_NMI_WATCHDOG): Likewise. (CONFIG_KDB): Likewise. (CONFIG_SOFTLOCKUP_THRESHOLD): Set to 100000000. (CONFIG_NMI_WATCHDOG_IRQ): Set to 0. (CONFIG_DEBUG_KSTACK): Unset. (CONFIG_KSTACK_METER): Likewise. (CONFIG_DEBUG_SOFTLOCKUP): Likewise. (CONFIG_PROFILE_GCC): Likewise. (CONFIG_TRACE): Likewise. (CONFIG_PRINT_EIP): Likewise. (CONFIG_MEMLEAK): Likewise. 2001-03-14 H.J. Lu * linux-2.2.18-nfs-rofs.patch: New. A patch from Trond for NFS mounted readonly. * Makefile (VA-SOURCES): Add linux-2.2.18-nfs-rofs.patch. * kernel.spec: Apply linux-2.2.18-nfs-rofs.patch. 2001-03-12 H.J. Lu * kernel-2.2-i686-smp.config (CONFIG_KERNEL_DEBUGGING): Set to `y'. * kernel.spec (VARelease): Set to 0.19. 2001-03-10 H.J. Lu * linux-2.2.18pre11-sym-20010212.patch: Restore the symbios quiet patch. * kernel.spec (VARelease): Set to 0.18. 2001-03-10 H.J. Lu * Makefile (VA-SOURCES): Add ChangeLog. * kernel.spec: Put ChangeLog as Documentation/ChangeLog.hjl. 2001-03-10 H.J. Lu * linux-2.2.18pre11-sym-20010212.patch: New. Updated to the sym driver 20010212. * Makefile (VA-SOURCES): Add linux-2.2.18pre11-sym-20010212.patch. * kernel.spec (VARelease): Set to 0.17. Apply linux-2.2.18pre11-sym-20010212.patch. 2001-03-10 H.J. Lu * pcmcia-cs-3.1.21-aic7xxx.patch: Fix clients/Makefile for aic7xxx_old.c. 2001-03-10 H.J. Lu * linux-aic7xxx-6.1.6-5.1.33.patch: New. A patch for new aic7xxx driver 6.1.6 and old 5.1.33. * Makefile (FOREIGN-TARS): Comment out aic7xxx-$(AIC7XXX-VERSION).tar.gz. (VA-SOURCES): Add linux-aic7xxx-6.1.6-5.1.33.patch. * kernel-2.2-i386-BOOT.config (CONFIG_AIC7XXX_BUILD_FIRMWARE): Set to `n'. (CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX_OLD): Set to `m'. (CONFIG_AIC7XXX_OLD_TCQ_ON_BY_DEFAULT): Set to `y'. (CONFIG_AIC7XXX_OLD_CMDS_PER_DEVICE): Set to 8. (CONFIG_AIC7XXX_OLD_PROC_STATS): Set to y. * kernel-2.2-i386-smp.config: Likewise. * kernel-2.2-i586-smp.config: Likewise. * kernel-2.2-i686-smp.config: Likewise. * kernel.spec: Remove aic7xxx-5.1.31.tar.gz. Apply linux-aic7xxx-6.1.6-5.1.33.patch. * pcmcia-cs-3.1.21-aic7xxx.patch: Updated for linux-aic7xxx-6.1.6-5.1.33.patch. 2001-03-10 H.J. Lu * Makefile (AIC7XXX-VERSION): Set to 5.1.33. * pcmcia-cs-3.1.21-aic7xxx.patch: Updated for aic7xxx 5.1.33. 2001-03-10 H.J. Lu * kernel.spec (VARelease): Set to 0.16. * kernel-2.2-i386-smp.config (CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX): Set to `m'. * kernel-2.2-i586-smp.config: Likewise. * kernel-2.2-i686-smp.config: Likewise. 2001-03-09 H.J. Lu * linux-2.2.18-nfs-access.patch: New. Fix a NFS typo. * Makefile (VA-SOURCES): Add linux-2.2.18-nfs-access.patch. * kernel.spec (VARelease): Set to 0.15. Apply linux-2.2.18-nfs-access.patch. 2001-03-07 H.J. Lu * kernel.spec (VARelease): Set to 0.14. * kernel-2.2-i386-smp.config (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DAC960): Set to `m'. (CONFIG_SCSI_BUSLOGIC): Set to y. * kernel-2.2-i586-smp.config: Likewise. * kernel-2.2-i686-smp.config: Likewise. 2001-02-27 H.J. Lu * linux-2.2.18-nfs-lfs.patch: Fix a typo. 2001-02-27 H.J. Lu * linux-2.2.18-nfs-lfs.patch: Updated for 2.2 kernel. 2001-02-27 H.J. Lu * linux-2.2.18-nfs-lfs.patch: New. A LFS patch for NFS from Trond. * Makefile (VA-SOURCES): Add linux-2.2.18-nfs-lfs.patch. * kernel.spec (VARelease): Set to 0.13. Apply linux-2.2.18-nfs-lfs.patch.