On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 09:59, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 19:23, Russell Hires wrote:
> > I gave up on xfs, I kept getting kernel oopses.
>
> What distro? Kernel?
Debian-sarge. Home built kernel.org generic tree 2.4.27 on powerpc.
> Understand that kernel 2.4 _requires_ a _massive_ set of patches to
> support XFS. That's why XFS wasn't included in kernel 2.4, even though
> it was quite mature back around when 2.4.2 was released.
Yeah, I figured it was okay after it finally got officially included in
the later 2.4.x kernels. But I guess not.
> If you were running a kernel 2.4 distro, and it wasn't RHL+XFS, then it
> would have been ignored.
>
That's one of those "I wish they would practice what they preach"
situations. Somebody should have cared about it.
> > They tell me to do all these things, and I often feel that no one
> > wants to work with me to find the problem. Maybe it's all in my
> > head...
>
> Kernel bug reports require a _lot_ of detail. And kernel 2.4 was
> incapable of support XFS.
And it seems to be so much detail that no one has a good guide for it.
Or wants to take some time to explain it.
> The cool thing about kernel 2.6 and XFS is that all of the subsystems
> added by SGI for XFS in 2.5.3+ has benefited other filesystems as well.
I have other problems with 2.6, mainly the voodoo3 card. I think I may
have found someone on the debian boot list that is willing to help me
figure that one out.
Russell
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