From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:21:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.168.29]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m1TLLZ1L025127 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:21:36 -0800 Message-ID: <47C87775.2010007@thebarn.com> Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:21:57 -0600 From: Russell Cattelan MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [REVIEW] Don't make lazy counters default for mkfs References: <1204166101.13569.102.camel@edge.scott.net.au> In-Reply-To: <1204166101.13569.102.camel@edge.scott.net.au> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------060201010306050906020701" Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: nscott@aconex.com Cc: Barry Naujok , "xfs@oss.sgi.com" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------060201010306050906020701 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Nathan Scott wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 12:09 +1100, Barry Naujok wrote: > >> Lazy superblock counters was released into mainline in 2.6.23-rc1. >> Some >> distros are still running an older kernel (2.6.22 for example) and >> with >> > > (many distros? RHEL5 and SLES10 wont have such recent kernels yet, > right?) > > >> the latest xfsprogs, cannot mount a freshly made filesystem with >> default >> options. >> >> This patch make lazy counters default back to off now. >> > > Looks good, thanks. > > >> Users who have a more recent kernel can easily enable them with mkfs >> or >> xfs_admin -c1 (in a patch posted out a few days ago which will be in >> the >> same xfsprogs release as this patch). >> >> Lazy counters will default to on again in xfsprogs 2.10.0 (when CI >> support >> is released). This should give enough time for distro kernels to catch >> up. >> > > Hmm, that still seems pretty soon to me. I'd have thought you'd at > least want to wait until most of the distributions (esp. SUSE for you > guys) have released versions that have kernels sufficiently recent > that the default mkfs will work. Otherwise this will be a recurring > problem. > I don't suppose there is an easy way to query xfs and find out if it can support the lazy SB option? > cheers. > > --------------060201010306050906020701 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=utf-8; name="cattelan.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="cattelan.vcf" begin:vcard fn:Russell Cattelan n:Cattelan;Russell email;internet:cattelan@thebarn.com x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard --------------060201010306050906020701--