On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 04:14:50PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 05:41:51AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Looks generally good, although I wonder the take on the realtime device
> > is a bit too positive given that we generally advise people not to use
> > it.
>
> Last time I tried formatting with a rt device (a month ago) the kernel
> crashed,
> as soon as I created an inode, so I guess we ought to warn people that this
> feature is severely bitrotted.
>
> What /is/ the official status of XFS RT? Most sane distros (looking right at
> you, Ubuntu) disable kernel support, so I guess:
>
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> WARNING: The realtime feature is not well maintained. Use with caution.
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It gets quite a long way through xfstests here before there's
an assert failure in the rt summary locking code. I'm planning on
fixing that when I get a chance and then running xfstests on it
regularly.
I also have patches for xfstests that allow the config section
code to use external devices, which makes it somewhat easier to
have a "forget+test" config....
Cheers,
Dave.
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