On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 17:01, Jason White wrote:
> Thank you for the excellent advice. I have two more questions, then we
> can bring this thread to a close - I hope.
>
> 1. Does Linux 2.4.14 with the XFS 1.0.2 patch applied contain an
> unmount bug? If not, then we can presumably conclude that it was
> the drive's write cache; and I will update to the latest Debian
> sysvinit package.
>
> 2. If there are any relevant bugs, I may upgrade to kernel 2.4.16 or,
> eventually, to 2.4.17 once it is released and XFS patches become
> available. In general, how stable are the developmental XFS
> releases on SGI's site or as obtained via CVS? In general I don't
> mind testing a new kernel if the worst that is likely to happen
> would be a system crash; but serious data corruption is another
> matter entirely. Of course, I realize that any testing is
> completely at my own risk.
In the 2.4 stream the xfs code changes are all bug fixes, there have
been a number recently. Right now the only place to get them from is
CVS really. 2.4.17 just got an rc2 patch today, so it looks like it
will be a while yet before it comes out, in the meantime we are
at 2.4.16 in cvs.
Steve
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