I'm going to set up a new machine with substantially more disk space I used to have before, and I wonder if I should use the XFS CVS version or the kernel patch. (Forgive me if this is in the FAQ, I
Are you feeling lucky? The CVS tree is bleeding edge with minimal testing. The kernel patches, particularly the official releases (1.0.1 is current) get much more testing but are against older kernel
At 08:53 8-10-2001 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: I'm going to set up a new machine with substantially more disk space I used to have before, and I wonder if I should use the XFS CVS version or the ker
Full moon tonight? ;-) Does it include new significant XFS development, or is it just tracking the mainline kernel? Exactly that's the problem. For example, at least one significant bug has been fixe
Pretty much everything new in cvs is for tracking newer kernels, or for XFS bug fixing. There is not much in the way of feature work ongoing at the moment - a new acl interface is being worked on as
Sounds interesting. I'm using only CVS tree kernels and never had problems. (OK - I'm using also released kernales, but only during install from CD). Have you any problems with CVS kernels ? Regards,
Well, they are often based on pre-xx Linus kernels and people definitely have problems with those sometimes. We always make sure there is a patch available against a 2.4.x release before we move the
We track Linus's pre-releases so every bug Linus ships, XFS CVS gets as well. For example, Linus 2.4.11-pre4 had broken VM under heavy loads, it is supposed to be fixed in -pre5, we don't know if it
Hmm, may I have more information on that ? I have VIA system but I thought that the other subsystems of the kernel are taking care about dealing with it. I didn't know every FS implementation have to
XFS doesn't do anything with system chipsets, I think Seth just meant that the later kernels might fix VIA problems. The "official" XFS 1.0.1 release is against 2.4.5, so if you need fixes in kernels
the CVS for I presume Seth is referring to core kernel changes, there is nothing in XFS related to different architectures of chip. Correct, there have been a lot of core fixes related to corruption