From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:12:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orca.ele.uri.edu (orca.ele.uri.edu [131.128.51.63]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id k6JEBwDW009644 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:11:58 -0700 Subject: Re: stable xfs From: Ming Zhang Reply-To: mingz@ele.uri.edu In-Reply-To: <200607190940.05596.ms@teamix.de> References: <1153150223.4532.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060719095400.A1936041@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> <200607190940.05596.ms@teamix.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:11:30 -0400 Message-Id: <1153318290.2691.46.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Martin Steigerwald Cc: Nathan Scott , xfs@oss.sgi.com yes. thx for reminding. Ming On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 09:40 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 19. Juli 2006 01:54 schrieb Nathan Scott: > > On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 11:30:23AM -0400, Ming Zhang wrote: > > > Hi All > > > > > > We want to use XFS in all of our production servers but feel a little > > > scary about the corruption problems seen in this list. I wonder which > > > 2.6.16+ kernel we can use in order to get a stable XFS? Thanks! > > > > Use the latest 2.6.17 -stable release, or a vendor kernel (SLES is > > particularly good with XFS, as SGI works closely with SUSE). > > Hello Nathan, > > as far as I can see the fix for kernel bug #6757 has not yet made it in a > stable kernel release upto 2.6.17.6 and thus should manually be applied: > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6757 > > It probably doesn't happen for lots of people but I would still apply that > patch unless it is finally put into a stable point release. > > Regards,