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Use the latest xfs-sources. Has xfs and other useful things, but none of |
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the performance patches that mess things up... |
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Or quit using xfs, and use my personal fav. reiserfs and then use |
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gentoo-sources-2.4.19-r9 |
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On Wed, 09/11/02 at 04:41:07 +0200, Emiel Kollof wrote: |
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> Hi list, |
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> |
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> I've been running Gentoo 1.2 for some time now, and it's pretty nifty, but I |
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> have a nit to pick. |
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> |
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> I use XFS. The Gentoo kernel has the preemptible kernel patch. Somehow, those |
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> two don't play nice together. It seems that the xfs code throws away stuff |
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> they lock a bit carelessly, and it's wreaking havoc with the preempt-kernel |
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> patch. |
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> |
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> Note that there is no stability and/or data loss, but the preempt patch |
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> cannot preempt because of this, and other than not doing preemption, it's |
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> filling up my logs with silly messages. I can patch the kernel not to show |
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> the crappy messages, but that would defeat the purpose of having a |
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> preemptible kernel, because it cannot preempt anything anyway. |
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> |
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> I know this is being worked on, and the newest CVS version of the XFS drivers |
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> have solved this problem. The XFS developers that the CVS version is very |
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> stable, so I'm asking if it's possible to put the cvs version of the xfs |
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> stuff in the gentoo-enhanced kernel. |
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> |
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> If this is not possible, well, I'd like to know what patches are incorporated |
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> into this kernel so I can apply it my damn self :) |
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> |
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> Cheers, |
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> Emiel |
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