> Are there any plans to release an official patch of XFS 1.0.1
> against kernel 2.4.7 in the next few weeks?
>
> Detlef
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Well, it depends on what you call 1.0.1 .... Almost all the changes we
have made to the development tree since the 1.0.1 release have been for
one of three things:
1) to fix a bug
2) to move the port forwards to the next kernel version
3) to reduce the footprint of xfs changes in the main kernel code
Unfortunately, items 2 and 3 got very tightly intertwined with each
other which makes it difficult to move the code up to a new release
level without bringing along other changes.
So realistically speaking, all we can offer are the patches in this
directory:
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/patches/
There is a 2.4.7 patch called patch-2.4.7-xfs-2001-07-22.bz2
I am currently looking to two problems with this code, one of which
I am sure is present in 1.0.1, one which may not be.
o xfs_fsr will leave busy inodes in the filesystem, this is
almost certainly in 1.0.1
o raid5 filesystems have log problems - the filesystem may not
mount without running xfs_repair first, I am about to check
in a fix for this. If I can find the script to regen the patch
I will push out a new version.
Now that there is another dot release we may do some more extensive testing
on it than the pre series, but given the changes I am not sure it is really
1.0.1 any more.
Steve
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