On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Collins Richey wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 21:22:38 -0700 (PDT) > Kevin OGorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This all fills me with fear and trepidation. > > > > I have a dual-xeon box that was running an older 2.4 > > kernel, trying to use ext3, but got tired of kernel > > panics. With all the good vibes around ext3 in general, > > I assumed that the presence of 4 hyperthreads was > > a problem that most people didn't face. Soo.... > > > > I'm bringing this machine up with gentoo and the big > > data partition is xfs. No problems so far, but I'm > > worried. I'm using a 2.6 kernel, perhaps close to the > > bleeding edge (I don't remember exactly how it > > was described, but most were 2.4 when I started this). > > > > Wish me luck... > > > > Based on my recent research, here are my recommendations: > > 1. If you want to be assured of xfs support, get the latest 2.6 kernel > recommended by xfs. xfs appears to have little patience for kernel > development, and they control the game, so you will be best served by > following their rules.
That's not quite accurate. The XFS developers actually have an amazing amount of patience for their user base. They go out of their way to help out. But they're not going to spend time debugging bizarre problems on a kernel that is a year old. > 2. If you need features/bugs that have been fixed in later 2.6.x > releases, get the latest plain vanilla 2.6 kernel from kernel.org. xfs > may still gripe if they haven't gotten around to thinking about this > release, but maybe you'll be lucky. THat's complete & utter BS. Collins, until you actually run on a XFS file system, don't start passing judgement on it and how its supported. > 3. If you need different kernel support, toss in some chicken feet, > backup, backup, backup and go ahead. If you need xfs support, you're > probably out of luck, since they have this immature (IMO) attitude that > anyone using a kernel release not blessed by God and xfs (or > reversed) doesn't really have a valid problem and, of course, in the > best of all possible worlds gentoo would cease to exist (why else was RH > created if everyone doesn't use it?) More BS, and you're just trolling now. > > 4. Final option, use ext3 and worry less <g>. I haven't ever read about > kernel developers being unwilling to work an ext3 problem. Come to think > about it, I've read about extremely few ext3 problems. That's cause most people who care abou their data don't use ext3 in the first place. Now can we drag this converation back from troll & flame bait land?? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub/Pause/Etc -> http://mail.linux-sxs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general
