From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:21:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from larry.melbourne.sgi.com (larry.melbourne.sgi.com [134.14.52.130]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with SMTP id m1KLL3mG022897 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:21:07 -0800 Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:21:20 +1100 From: David Chinner Subject: Re: Is CVS stable? Message-ID: <20080220212120.GT155407@sgi.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: eric c Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 02:26:42AM -0600, eric c wrote: > Hello, > > I have recently seen some patches for slabcache related > xfs_inode/xfs_vnode_t/dentry_cache taking up alot of memory: > http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2007-12/msg00154.html > http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2008-02/msg00138.html > > If I cvs on linux-2.6-xfs, is it stable for production or bleeding? Mostly stable, but it is our _development_ tree and that means it can be broken at any given time. And by "broken" I mean corrupt your filesystems and lose all your data. IOWs, use the CVS tree in production at your own risk. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group