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Re: xfs after a week of use

To: thomas.graichen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: xfs after a week of use
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 13:24:24 -0500
Cc: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Message from Thomas Graichen <graichen@innominate.de> of "Mon, 07 Aug 2000 20:16:21 +0200." <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008072013320.2095-100000@h2o.bln.innominate.de>
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> > 
> > Looks like this:
> > 
> > mount -n -o remount,ro /
> > 
> > Which will not look like a clean shutdown when we remount an XFS filesystem
.
> > 
> ... which proves to be right here :-)
> 
> how it should perfectly look like for xfs ?
> 

At the moment I think it needs code changes, XFS expects to get unmounted
by the kernel shutdown code - which is not happening in Linux. There is a
partially working patch in my mailbox somewhere, maybe it is time to finish
it.

> 
> p.s.: is there any XFS faq so far (oss.sgi.com says "not available
>       yet") - if not i may start one - because looks like it's needed
>       now that more people start testing xfs
> 

No, there are little bits and pieces scattered around the place, currently
we have bandwidth problems around here so we have been ignoring it.....

Steve



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