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Re: Redhat Advanced Server and XFS?

To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Redhat Advanced Server and XFS?
From: Austin Gonyou <austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 22 Aug 2002 11:57:11 -0500
Cc: Simon Matter <simon.matter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Bill Anderson <bill@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "Linux XFS \(SGI\)" <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <20020822174044.A23116@infradead.org>
Organization: Coremetrics, Inc.
References: <20020822174044.A23116@infradead.org>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 11:40, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
...
> Although the AS server calls itself 2.4.9 it is quite different from
> RedHat's 2.4.9-34 (which already has more in common with the last
> 2.4.13-ac
> then any released 2.4.9 kernel..).  This does include
> filesystem-related
> changes such as AIO to which XFS is not adoptable without major
> effort.

Good thing Andrea's tree has AIO in 2.4.19 and XFS. 


> The simplest solution would to just take the 2.4.9-34 rpm which should
> install fine in AS and use that with XFS.  Alternatively I'm happy to
> contract with you in October to fit XFS into the AS kernel 8)

Blech!!! Use the -AA tree and get the good scheduler fixes. 

-- 
Austin Gonyou <austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Coremetrics, Inc.


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