On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 18:13, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> BTW: It's a Debian server (3.0 with security updates, I downloaded and
> compiled xfsprogs and xfsdump rather than use the supplied Debian ones)
> It's running a stock 2.4.21 kernel patched with Alan Coxes ac4 patches
> which include XFS. I've heard that these patches are "old" though. Right
> now I have lots more processes stuck in D state so I'll have to reboot it
> in the morning.
>
This combination of code may be the problem - ac patches and xfs, the
version of xfs in Alan's tree probably has had less testing than any
other combination out there. It has almost certainly degenerated into
unbuildable code by now, we have not had the bandwidth to keep it
upto date.
First thing I would do would be to move to a different code base. If
there is something specific in the ac tree you need, that gets harder.
Steve
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