I wrote: > I don't have any xfs filesystems on my computer Forgot to say: that's because of old reports on LKML that the xfs filesystem uses a lot of the precious (limited to 4 kilobytes if the interrupt handler fires at the "right" moment) kernel stack. Thus, it is not a good idea to use xfs on anything else than a plain partition (i.e., no LVM2, cryptoroot or other fancy device-mapper stuff). In fact, in August, 2007, I helped debugging a kernel crash reported on the linux.org.ru forum, and it disappeared after the reporter switched from xfs to ext3 on his encrypted filesystem.
Should we mention this "don't use xfs on anything else than a partition" advice in the book in the case xfsprogs get re-added? -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
