On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 10:34:18PM +0800 or thereabouts, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> No, it's not. It's getting really boring because I'm not getting any new
> symptoms. Nothing interesting. No new info to help me help you out.
>
this email would be as i've finish my benchmark for reiserfs, xfs, and
jfs. read on...
> Kernel compile? I thought you said you encountered errors while
> patching??? If it's during compile, what version of gcc are you using?
> There is a faq entry about some early gcc 2.95.2 or is it 2.95.3 that's in
> Debian. I didn't get "hit" by this, though. I upgraded early enough. :)
>
nah. gcc 2.95.2 is good enough. didn't i mentioned that the problem
was with compiling? i may have not. sorry to have "misled" the list.
> Also, you may want to disable kdb (kernel debugger). Unless of course you
> want to go searching for bugs and need a way to grab that trace to help
> the developers out.
>
that *WAS* the problem i was facing during kernel compile. normally
the "Kernel Hack" section is not touched for regular use so i didn't
bother looking in it. it was the email from Paolo that made me think
to look into that section. lo and behold the shy kdb is hiding there.
as far as i can remember it wasn't mentioned in the any xfs docs or
faqs that i've read.
> If you're using pure potato (2.2), then you shouldn't be playing with the
> 2.4 kernels. Go get some backported packages that the 2.4 kernels need.
>
hmm, your sentence contradict each other. :-)
> It's really intriguing that you're having so much difficulty with XFS. I
> never had such difficulty, and it's not because of DSL. I started using
> XFS with a measly dial-up connection, too. :)
>
well i guess that's what i get for reading the docs afterwards.
> Maybe. Maybe not. I wouldn't know because I use sid (unstable). Hehehe. ;>
>
hehe. prolly it's with this particular iso that i created during the
first week potato was released.
so now that i'm "Linux amnesiac 2.4.9-xfs #15 Tue Sep 18 19:30:09 PHT
2001 i686 unknown" i think i better put together a one page mini-HOWTO
about my xfs experience (or lack thereof). i'm attaching the results
of my benchmarks using "bonnie". i used "bonnie" for two reasons:
one, the man page says it's for benchmarking filesystems and two, this
is my first time to do benchmarks and "bonnie" fits my simple needs.
maybe when i'm more adept with benchmarking and it's tools i will used
more fancy ones.
so, mr. jijo, now that i've tried all linux filesystems available sans
"ext3" and benchmarked them maybe i can invite you to try the same on
your box. ;-)
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