Is CVS stable?

Is CVS stable?

[eric c]

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?

Thanks
eric c
xcellula@gmail.com

Re: Is CVS stable?

[Klaus Strebel]

eric c schrieb:
> 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?

Hi Eric,

im running cvs since 14th Feb. quite stable on my home laptop ( well, 
some days before, there was this funny thing with the slabcache which 
caused a nice deadlock on shutdown ). I use the cvs kernels since ... 
well, years ... and they are mostly stable, but it is always a good idea 
to have a working kernel bootable.

At the moment it is still 2.6.24-rcX, the guys at SGI seem to be very 
busy, so nobody did the update to 2.6.24 ( or 2.6.25-rc2 ).

Ciao
Klaus


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Re: Is CVS stable?

[Eric Sandeen]

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?

I'd never consider any cvs head as "stable for production"

That said, the xfs cvs tree is probably one of the more stable
bleeding-edge trees you'll find. ;)

-Eric

> Thanks
> eric c
> xcellula@gmail.com
> 
> 

Re: Is CVS stable?

[David Chinner]

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.
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Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group