From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id n1CM0OdD087709 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:00:24 -0600 Received: from web30204.mail.mud.yahoo.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with SMTP id 566001924E21 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:59:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from web30204.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web30204.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.69.51]) by cuda.sgi.com with SMTP id r6H48dNBF27TDDL4 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:59:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <342331.71207.qm@web30204.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:59:48 -0800 (PST) From: Subject: Re: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#1! In-Reply-To: <20090212215508.GT8830@disturbed> MIME-Version: 1.0 List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Dave Chinner Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com Well the problem is the older kernel XFS driver is buggy to such a large extent that there is data loss even for data on rest should a power loss occur. With a newer version back port I can preserve the kernel version change since it becomes far more reaching to the other kernel components and they have to move, to which ..... there is strong reservation. Hope this gives you the perspective. Thanks, Rakesh --- Dave Chinner wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 01:22:16AM -0800, > raksac@yahoo.com wrote: > > > > Hi Justin, > > > > Yes it is a 2.6.18 rhel5 based custom kernel but > the > > XFS driver is a back port from the 2.6.28.4 > > Then you get to keep all the broken bits to > yourself. If you want > to throw random versions of XFS at random versions > of kernels then > we can't help you - we don't have the time or > resources to support > random backports of XFS to older kernels (and > non-vanilla kernels > at that). > > Cheers, > > Dave. > -- > Dave Chinner > david@fromorbit.com > _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs