Re: WANTED: most stable 2.4 kernel ver. plus XFS patches for SMP machines

[Martin Apel <apel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> we would like to migrate our fileserver to XFS as quickly as possible.
>
> Therefore, can you recommend the most stable 2.4.x kernel version plus 
> suitable
> XFS patches?
>
> In case it matters we run Debian stable. We will add the "Bunk" repository to
> our APT sources list in order to update the system to be 2.4-ready when it's
> time to migrate.

We are currently running a 2.4.12 kernel on a SMP machine serving 270 G
from a hardware RAID 5 system via NFS and Samba. I used a standard kernel
and then applied the following patches:
  linux-2.4.12-xfs-2001-10-11.patch.bz2
  LVM 1.0.1-rc4

If you are planning to serve NFS you should also apply one patch which
is part of 2.4.13. I can send it to you if you want to.

The setup described above works very stable at our site.

Martin