Re: How to use Michael Cohen's kernel

[Stephen Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

Eric Sandeen wrote:

> I don't know how cleanly the XFS patch will apply against the -mjc tree,
> my only suggestion would be to try it and see, and if you have problems
> with conflicts that you can't resolve, someone on the list may be able to
> help.
>
> -Eric
>
> On 21 Jan 2002, Stuart Luppescu wrote:
>
> > I read on the Gentoo web site (http://www.gentoo.org/) that they are
> > using Michael Cohen's new kernel with XFS and it is tremendously fast
> > and stable. However, there is no indication on how to patch the thing.
> > In the mjc section of kernel.org there is a patch,
> > 2.4.17-2.4.18-pre3-mjc3.patch
> > which appears to be against a plain 2.4.17 kernel. And we can get xfs
> > patches from oss.sgi.com. But in what order do we apply the patches? Do
> > we apply the mjc patch first and then the 2.4.18 xfs patch, or the
> > 2.4.17 xfs patch and the the mjc patch?
Daniel Robbins of gentoo has been in touch with me separately about problems
they are having with xfs in this tree - filesystem corruption. So I 
would hold off
for a while. We are attempting to workout what is going wrong.

Steve