At 22:53 10-10-2001, you wrote:
At 22:24 10-10-2001 +0200, Arjen Wolfs wrote:
I'm seeing a lot of discussion about the 2.4.10 and 2.4.11, and I am
wondering when the next "stable" linux-xfs release will be. So far the
2.4 series of kernels (with or without xfs) has mostly been a "try random
kernels and kernel configurations until you find one that works for
you"-approach, which is making life very difficult. It would be really
good(TM) to have a tested 2.4.10-based (or later) official xfs
release...is any such thing forthcoming?
No 2.4.10+ work reported yet. You might try rawhide (redhat) or cooker
(mandrake) for something although they will probably be based on a -ac
version. I think there is a certain person to blame :-)
All these versions and VM's are fine and dandy, but at the end of the day
people expect to get some actual work done with this supposed "stable"
kernel series ;)
If 2.4.8-ac is good enough for you, try the mandrake kernel from 8.1 which
seems to work well for me at work on highmem smp boxes. It also holds up
well against some higher load I threw at it.
Highmem+SMP is also what I'm blessed with, ~2.2 million files on a 250GB
hardware raid5 xfs partition...removing 30 files of ~300 bytes each takes
approximately 1 minute(!).
In general the 2.4 -ac kernels that alan produces fare better then the 2.4
-linus kernels. Even when Alan is merging alot he still manages to retain
a lot of stability. This is the exact reason why he is skipping the 2.4.10
VM change and is still holding onto the VM that Rik van Riel wrote.
He is slowly inserting some speedups Rik sent in the -ac VM which a lot of
people are also noticing.
Are there xfs patches available for these kernels, or can the "standard"
ones be applied?
Both RedHat and Mandrake use -ac for their distributions. I don't know
about SuSE. Maybe a SuSE user can comment on that.
I am a SuSE user, but I never use rpm's, nor "official" suse kernels...
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